... the end of a dock. Differing to Jamal and Gatsby, Mitchell's symbolism reflects her own changing impressions and experiences of love. At the time of writing the song, Mitchell's personal life was in a state of flux. Having been a single mother and placing her infant daughter in a foster home, Joni married Chuck Mitchell ... were Mitchell's delusional ideas of love in direct alignment with those of Jamal and Gatsby, they were also a product of the era she wrote the song in. In the sixties, people were feeling more freedom to experiment with love - 'the power of love' was propagated by...

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... to New York to become a writer (after finishing a stint in the armed services). Similarly, the women Nick encounters reflect Fitzgerald's view of women based primarily upon his relationship with Zelda - a girl he met while stationed in Alabama who ended up following Fitzgerald to New York where the couple became engaged to be married. Zelda ended up breaking their engagement when she ... felt when Daisy's daughter was born: "I asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. "All right," I said, "I"m glad it's a girl...

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... ; he does not care if he hurts someone. At one time, he was very rude when paying only ten dollars to a dog seller on the street. " Is it a boy or a girl?' she asked delicately, that dog. That dog's a boy. (Dog-seller) It's a bitch, said Tom decisively. Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it. (Pg. 28) This shows ... to be successful. Daisy is the woman who uses her money and beauty inside of her mind to achieve things. She says, " I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.""(P.21) Daisy does ...

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... him her "little gold pencil" in case he wants to "take down any addresses," and "she looked around after a moment and told Nick that the girl was 'common but pretty'" (Fitzgerald, p. 112). It takes longer to see Daisy's fear of intimacy come out in the story, but when it does, it is just as ... 's affair with Myrtle, might suggest that she desires emotional intimacy with her husband. This appearance is demonstrated by Jordan's description of Daisy after her honeymoon reinforces this interpretation: I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she'...

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... of what the men want. We can see notions of these evidently at work when Carrie got a pseudonym in the play at the Earl, to perform the role of a poor girl who got elevated to a higher social standing. The renaming of Carrie here is a metaphor and subtle reminder by Drouet and Hurstwood of their role and influence in her social elevation ... 's fellow beings. For example, once Hurstwood could no longer support Carrie, she detested him and thinks of him as him as lazy. While Hurstwood declined, Carrie found a job as a chorus girl and soon afterward as a well-paid actress. Carrie then move...

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... us make such fools of ourselves. The effort, the preparations, all the expense! The new floor lamp, the rug the clothes for Laura! All for what? To entertain some other girl's fiancé! ... Go! Don't think about us, a mother deserted, an unmarried sister who's crippled and has no job!..." Unlike Amanda's normal outlook, she sees herself as deserted when she usually ... ...

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... also his religion. "Now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail. He knew that Daisy was extraordinary but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a nice' girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing. He felt married to her, that was all-(156-167). Even when his dream ... ...

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