... 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. " ... her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick d...

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... and deeply embedded in in the life of every American. In The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby failed to achieve his American dream because although he found financial stability, he did not find the happiness to come with it. For Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby was ... born very poor he was the son of a "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people."(104) he also "never accepted them ... love as seen in the idea of the mysterious green light that extende...

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... father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. Rather than appreciate her work, he ridicules her. Mostly the circumstances of her family make Eveline want to escape. b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is ... 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 in an ugly situation, responsible for her siblings and the aging father who abuses her. Paralysis is a common theme in Dubliners, and poor ....

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... of the three most important authors to write in between the two great wars (Magill 1032). After writing the Great Gatsby he became known as the " chronicler of the Jazz Age" (Eble 95). Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24 1896. On his father, Edward's, side of the family his second cousin was Francis Scott Key, the lawyer who wrote, "The Star Spangled Banner." On his mom's side of the ... . At this time in his life he was now dealing with the stresses of his marriage, alcoholism, and recurring bouts of childhood tuberculosis. Not too mention, many of his literary wo...

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