Winter Dreams The twenties were an amazing time full of hopes, dreams, and for the wealthy parties. ... Within the short story Winter Dreams, by Fitzgerald, there were many of the same themes as that in The Great Gatsby such as infidelity as well as similarities between the characters. ... In both The Great Gatsby and Winter dreams, the two leading ladies start out in love with a poor man. ... Both The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams differ in part because of the way each ends. ... Probably the most eminent similarity between The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams was the theme of infidelity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dream Stuff is a book about people who are haunted. ... Dreams offer a chance to re-enter a present world of memory and imagination that has been driven underground. ... Distinctive aspects of Malouf's writing The title Dream Stuff is perfect for a book by David Malouf. Malouf's style is best described as an exploitation of dreaming. ... The family believes that every word of the bible is literally true, and since Uncle Charles has "practiced abominations," he is literally burning within from his sins. ...

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The question I am asked to answer within this essay is why I liked this book, Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska. ... Yezierska entwines colorful language with beautiful story lines to form one strikingly influential novel of dreams, irony, and strife. ... Many of the main characters such as Shenah Pessah, a poor Russian immigrant looking only for a good education, go to America full of dreams. The character's dreams are soon crushed as they reach America, only to find it is just as downtrodden and oppressed as their native land. ...

• Word Count: 432
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• Grade Level: High School

Towards the end of his quest at Araby, he discovers the difference between his dream world and actuality, sending him a crushing blow of reality. ... He is deceiving himself into thinking the love he has for her is real by failing to see that it is based on the dream world he created and the romantic novels he has read. ... His dreams and idealistic thoughts of Mangan's sister taint every aspect of his day. ... The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. ... The shallowness of the bazaar, which in his mind was an "Eastern enchantment,"...

• Word Count: 784
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• Grade Level: High School

Within the short story By the Waters of Babylon, modern society no longer exists. ... John, the main character in By the Waters of Babylon wants to follow his dream and find out what destroyed the mysterious gods. ... While sleeping John discovers the truth in another dream, the gods he feared were really just people and they had been destroyed by some kind of bomb. ... In Rappaccini's Daughter most of the story takes place within a garden. ...

• Word Count: 507
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• Grade Level: High School

Sonny's Blues The Title Sonny's Blues referring to the short story written by James Baldwin has many significances and double meanings within the story. ... He had dreams, goals, ambition; spending countless hours practicing the piano as a child, hoping for a better life. ... It was the only barricade between Sonny and his dreams. ... The title represents both the positive and negative halves of the equation with clever reference to many other aspects within the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She also has hopes and dreams that her husband does not understand. ... Chekhov implies that their estrangement was mutual and that she felt powerless to pursue her dreams. ... Ivan fails to realize that unlike lottery tickets a fulfilled life has features of permanence and satisfaction that comes from within. ...

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Throughout the story Hugh's character begins to contradict this "label" and finds within him an obsessive insecurity. Towards the end of the story Hugh is placed in "the perfect dilemma," in which he must choose to save his neighbor's life or win over his dream, the Dane house. ... The Dane house is Hugh's dream home. ... You would learn more in that minute that you dreamed possible" (411). ...

• Word Count: 900
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• Grade Level: High School

Emily's conflicts within herself and the community's conflicts towards her are the two main conflicts in this story. The conflicts within herself are more prominent than what she had with the community she lived in. Conflict within a character can deal with inner morals, dreams ambitions, and rights and wrongs. ... Her conflict lay within her because she did not know when to let go of a person or a situation. ...

• Word Count: 674
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• Grade Level: High School

"Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream - the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure." ... It is not clear why these two were not friends though, Hemingway commented after Fitzgerald's death, "What a lovely writer he was within his ignorance and lack of education, and his adoration of the rich. ...

• Word Count: 575
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• Grade Level: High School

Out of all the old, weird things, he has a mirror that "was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients dwelt within its verge, and would stare him in the face whenever he looked thitherward- (503). ... He believes "it was altogether within the limits of possibility to discover this long-sought medium- (196). ... Georgiana thought, "it is terrible to possess such power, or even to dream of possessing it- (196). ...

• Word Count: 863
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• Grade Level: High School

The character of Major Molineux represents an ego trapped within a self-indulged idealism. ... As though waking from a dream, a new individual emerges from the depths of self-interest, to advance further his or her own hidden potential. ... The language that Hawthorne uses to help define the central idea of the story lies within a comparison of light and dark imagery. ... Change is a constant variable when measuring anything within a certain reality. When the individual maintains the ability to acknowledge this relationship between the self and the world of a reality created within that s...

• Word Count: 1004
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hell is on earth or within individuals who crave superficial prizes, but each time Elliot takes on the external attributes of his new self, he is never given an "internal" realignment. While the Faust of the classic story by Goethe wishes for youth and the love of the woman of his dreams to replace his dry and dusty scholarly properties, Elliot already has youth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within the course of an hour, Louise Mallard experiences fresh freedoms, a new sense of life, and then death. ... Mallard in this way, "a sob came up in her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams" (Chopin 15). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although his dismay through life would show that he lacks emotion of events, or that he keeps them hidden within. ... In all aspects of symbolism in Young Goodman Brown and Faith, the wife; faith, the act of believing; and the pink ribbons all intercept and become Brown's inability to "never recognizes the true proportions of Faith's character, the true character of the people in his community, or the true and total potential within himself. He rejects the actual and real, clings to the dream of perfection and security, and lives by that disastrously. ...

• Word Count: 948
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From reading the stories most people assume that man is always pitted against nature, however these stories show man's place within nature. ... Man's place within nature is learned by both men. ... Santiago often dreams of watching lions play on the beach. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In life, there are two kinds of people: those that run from life and live cautiously and those that throw their caution into the wind and follow their dreams and desires through to the very end. ... Bass has used throughout the short story some very effective metaphors to represent the dilemma the protagonist faces within himself. ... The flames that burn within should not be dampened, but worshipped and not taken for granted. ...

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Within the story there are three defining ironic moments. ... Her brothers attempts to make her assume a traditional female role is reflected in the feminist strains of her writing, glorifying heroines who dream of economic independence and celebrating the "wicked" sexuality of women (Classic Notes 1). ...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School