... say something about Tom's affair, which makes her rather blunt. Myrtle Wilson is portrayed to be foolish and adulterous. Myrtle is married to George Wilson which owns a car garage in The Valley of Ashes. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. (Fitzgerald 34) She married George because she thought he would be different than what ... he actually was. She will do anything to get out of the situation she is in, so she leaves George for Tom which beats her. She never really loved Tom, she just wanted his money. "Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extin...

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... poor health Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton without a degree and joined the Army as a second lieutenant. It was while he was on duty in the Army outside of Montgomery Alabama where he met his soon to be wife Zelda Sayre. F. Scott Fitzgerald was never recognized as a great writer until the 1950's and 1960's nearly fifteen years after his death. After a successful first novel, ... This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald "began a destructive lifestyle marked by drinking, partying, ... and overspending"(Magill 1032). In May of 1924 Fitzgerald and his wife spent five years abroad in Europe. D...

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... want to escape. b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. She is helpless to break away from him. c) The weight of poverty and family responsibilities bear down on this young woman heavily; her financial situation is very bad. She is trapped ... somehow sees herself as the subservient wife. Zelda tries to convince her future husband of her extraordinary abilities as a house wife and espouse. The text provokes in me the feeling that Zelda's only chances of achievi...

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... that he so desired. "At least ounce a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree out of Gatsby's enormous garden."(44) Living in New York, Gatsby threw all kinds of lurid parties in bid to become famous and capture the heart of Daisy who also lives in New York and is still married to Tom. The ... did not what he wanted the most, Daisy Gatsby's sheer optimism to win Daisy's love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extended from Gatsby's dock to the end of Daisy's window, this to me repr...

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