Hemingway embodies the same features in Lady Brett Ashley who plays a very significant role in The Sun Also Raises by seducing most of the male characters with her charm and sexual confidence. ... Furthermore, this new beginning marked a turn in the women's history and for the first time the flappers embodied the triumphs and dangers of the modern era. ... Lady Ashley controls every scene in The Sun Also Rises, and her powerful and destructive force leads the male characters to behave in certain ways. ... The several images of women that we get from reading The Great Gatsby, In Our Time,...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They begin to fall in love again in the fair weather when the sun comes out. ... The sun radiates happiness and a fiery passion. ... "American History: Roaring Twenties a time of economic and social change". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However this essay is not exploring American history beyond explaining aspects of the text. ... In the novel Gatsby declares a world of colour, "the lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music."" ... Another brief history lesson: At the end of the first world war the role of women dramatically changed. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Its varnished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby 's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." ... Eckelburg" like some enormous impotent god: "But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sunlight, starlight and moonlight are all plentiful in Nick Carraway's account, but so is twilight – that period of time when the sun has just set and the stars and moon have not yet risen. ... Yet it serves as a bridge between the two, bringing to light the then-unknown history between the two to Nick Carraway. ...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School