... relationships became in the consumer society that Chicago was transformed into, is first evident on the fact that Minnie and Hanson invited Carrie to stay at their house not out of a desire for the companionship of a close family relative, but so they can make profit from her labor by charging her for board ... to Carrie during their relationship that he will marry her; he had no qualms at the same time, trifling with the chambermaid that worked in his house. Yet he became inflamed and disturbed when he discovered that Carrie was having an affair with his friend, Hurstwood. In many ways l...

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... not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom's morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. The carefulness of speaking shows the theme of morality because it reflects respect for humanity. With the realization that ... people didn't come because they were friends of Gatsby's; they came to act freely, without having to worry about possible consequences. Fitzgerald also writes of the house of Tom and Daisy Buchanan as being extremely extravagant. Nick mentions that it was "more elaborate than I had expected" (pg 12...

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... positive entity, which is ethereal, and untouchable. After Nick and Gatsby had lunch, Nick arrives home in East Egg to discover Gatsby's house, which was intensely lit up; " My house was on fire the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal upon the shrubbery." The light symbolises a beacon, which Gatsby hopes will ... But none of his possessions are important to him; she is the only thing of relevance, with it being evident to onlookers, such as Nick that the house has value only in it's ability to bring Daisy to him. This is a contrast to Myrtle, who wants to escape her worki...

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... Gatsby. He notes every little detail about Daisy, even the little green light on at the end of her dock. At night Gatsby would step outside his house and perform a ritual, "he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have ... 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 was fading he ... lost all sense of rea...

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... 's, "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: I never loved you. After, they could go back to Louisville and be married from her house "just as if it were five years ago."" (p.111) This states the ultimate goal of Gatsby. He wants and thinks Daisy loves him, basing it upon the past experiences ... wife's demise though, Fitzgerald shows us that the American Dream only brings along tragic endings. Fitzgerald furthers this tragedy through George's action, " he [Gatsby's chauffeur] heard the shots at Gatsby's house the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way of...

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... only person pursuing a better and larger life who doesn't get caught up in the shallow, materialistic notions of most people doing the same thing. For instance, Nick ends up renting a house in West Egg that is "a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month" and is " squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season." (pp. 8-9). Nick's next ... , at attaining the American Dream, onto the women that surrounded them. Certainly, the drinking party at the apartment demonstrated that not all women wore white dresses and laid about the house like statu...

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... , but of prejudice. Scout describes neighborhood 'monster' Boo Radley as a "malevolent phantom" and the children play games to taunt him because he never comes out of his house. In reality, Boo Radley is nothing but a kind man who ultimately saves Scout and Jem's lives. It is not until the end of the book when Scout realizes she had ... ...

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... other's lover. Although it is apparently an accident, Daisy is the driver who kills Myrtle with Gatsby's car it is not an accident that Tom sends George Wilson to Gatsby's house. When Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame for Myrtle's death it indicates both her conception of him as an emotional buffer between her and the world, and his expendability to ... ...

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... admits that he will become like the other workers and says " I'll work my month an' I'll take my fifty bucks an' I'll stay all night in some lousy cat house. Or I'll set in some poolroom till ever'body goes home. An' then I'll come back an' work another month an' I'll have fifty bucks more.""(Steinbeck 95). George decides ... ...

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