... bring into discussion issues arising from the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonists of both novels are linked by their parallel ambitions, their motivations ... this scene of Julia suing Hurstwood prevented the book from totally enacting the notion that a woman's role in the capitalistic world of Sister Carrie is entirely dependent on artifice and performance, Julia in suing Hurstwood for his properties also expressed a theme on...

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... Americans Charlotte Bunch and Elizabeth Schneider (www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw, see Schneider 2000; 2004; Bunch 1990; 1997). Like this book, the report grounds the problem in larger social structures of inequality rather than the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Thus, the 1990s and ... rights which are collective and whose beneficiaries are historically formed communities rather than individuals or states (Anaya 1996: 48). As Anaya notes, these rights not only conflict with the dominant individual/state dichotomy which underlies the creation of international standards, but it a...

• Word Count: 9630
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate