... to want to have or be something that they are not. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman and Gatsby are characters dominated by an American dream that destroyed them. Their dreams come from an illusionary past and were also based outside of their own self. Gatsby tried to repeat his past, while Willy attempted to create a satisfactory past. The ... a satisfactory past for himself is his funeral. Willy commits suicide in an attempt to win "diamonds" in the form of insurance money for his family. Before he dies, however, he dreamily talks about the...

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... is sick and could not work. In this regard, Minnie and Hanson wasted no time in kicking Carrie out of their house because she no longer was profitable to them. Instead of returning back to Wisconsin, Carrie moved in with Drouet, the traveling salesman that she had met on the train that brought her to Chicago. Not too long after she had moved ... around him. The passing public who normally shunned giving arms to individual beggars on many days, do not hesitate donating money for Captain's cause on behalf of the beggars because he puts up an interesting performance. Likened to the success...

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... ). Elliot portrays a world, morally falling apart with no principle to hold it together (Lehan "Sugar Lumps- 95). Fitzgerald incorporates his personal background, peers and close friends, to form the personalities of the various characters in The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (Michael Reynolds 2360). His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was ... a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). Fitzgerald enlisted in the army and fell for the southern belle, Zelda ...

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"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters". This quote by Thoreau is proved to be true in the play The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Miller uses the literary element of characterization to convey the idea that a person's dreams are the blueprints for his or her life. Fitzgerald, however, uses the theme of time to portray the same ... shape a persons being. They give a person something to hope and strive for in their life. Without dreams, life is meaningless. In Death of a Salesman, the readers (or viewers) are introduced to Wil...

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... not know that it was already behind him."" (Fitzgerald 189). Then, John Steinbeck illustrates the impossibility of the American dream in his novel Of Mice and Men, through the lives of his central characters. Set during the Great Depression era the characters have dreams typically American of this era: dreams for untarnished happiness and for the freedom or opportunity to follow their own desires. ... The two central characters, George and Lennie are homeless and continuously migrating workers. They relentlessly work, never reaping the benefits of their work. They dream of living "off t...

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... . I"ll pay you every penny back." Shows that he has been working all his life, but sill needs to borrow money. Whilst striving to attain the dream the central characters of the texts exhibit different emotions; exhaustion and energy. Gatsby is a vision of pure yearning and energy; " He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way." This image is one ... ; "[Willy breaks off, staring at the light, which occupies the chair, animating it.] Frank, Frank, don't you remember what you told me that time?" In "Death of A Salesman," we see Willy's imagination as pitiful. There is a...

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... novel The Great Gatsby , there were many characters that show the reality of life, such as Gatsby, Daisy, or Nick. However, Nick was the character, who inspired me most. Nick had a big role in the novel. He was the narrator of this novel. Nick was a struggling bond salesman that just move next to that big place ... about Gatsby. Nick had a big role in this novel. He was the one who connected most characters together. He was Daisy's cousin, and Gatsby's neighborhood. He was the key of Gatsby affair with Daisy. It was because of Nick that let Daisy and Gatsby met each other. It also was N...

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... and is seen as valued by many. However, to be considered as such it would have to meet the criteria of being able to explore and deal with important philosophical and moral topics of importance such as: love, class, wealth or death. These are but a few examples of what is considered 'valuable literature' would contain. I believe that Fitzgerald's novel does meet the criteria ... dream in this novel such as Nick Carraway, the narrator throughout the novel, who moves to New York to become a bond salesman in hopes of making his own fortune. Nick is also arguably the most innocent amon...

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... ash dump near, which are the garage and home of George and Myrtle Wilson. Significantly all the characters pass through this " valley of ashes, " a symbol of the unfertile wasteland they inhabit. It is here too, that the terrible climax of the novel occurs. Upon this gloomy setting stares the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg, a billboard advertisement placed in front of the ash dump. These eyes stare unfeelingly at ... in World War I and getting an education at Yale, Nick begins work as a bond salesman. Settled in West Egg, he renews his relationship with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom...

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... time period that the film was made,but if you compare it to films that have come out recently the colors wouldnt be so great because of the fact that technology had evolutionized.The sound effects that were used in the film were very realistic such as the gun shots that were ... for example when George Wilson is looking for Gastby the music sounds very suspensful and matched the scene.The make up in the film made the characters look the way i suspected before watching the film such as the rich dressed very clean and neat and the poor were always working and dirty. ... in order to send ...

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