... and sank down into the chair. "Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?" Walter Mitty looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. [...] "The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh, sir," said the sergeant. Captain Mitty looked up at him through tousled hair. "Get him to bed," he said wearily. "With the others. I'll fly alone ... he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could ...

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" "I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we ... started to town- (68). This quote correlates the color green with money. Fitzgerald may be using green to symbolize money and its power in society, since money rules the lives of the people in the st...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... that eluded so many women of her time. However, her upbringing and the way she was taught to live somewhat erased or hid these traits. When Daisy is first introduced, she is laid out on a couch with the wind blowing around her. Everything about her behavior at this time and later in the book suggests fragility. Even her name, Daisy, implies delicacy. A daisy is a beautiful ... white flower with very thin leaves and a thin stem, and handling them requires care and gentility. Daisies are somewhat ... that she could possibly have the courage to leave her husband even though her helplessne...

• Word Count: 1869
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School