All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits, and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. ... He describes it as a game specifically that women and men are playing in this world to find their place in society. ... At one point in the novel, Huck experiences a riff between the town drunk and some civilians. ... He does this by creating different fantasies that he wishes to happen in real life, as reality is currently in play. ... We occasionally have adventure in our lives, but then after the fact, to be set back into our typical dai...

• Word Count: 2204
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Most of our major female characters in the three novels are hurt to different degrees by their men, but all of them are fortunate to have control over their own destinies regardless of the decisions that they make. ... The fact that she plays golf professionally which is a sport that women were not allowed to play before, is a key point to understand that she is autonomous and successful. ... In In Our Time when Krebs returns home, he tells us how the girls in his town have become women, how they all form a pattern, and they all seem to be living complicated lives. ... The several images of wo...

• Word Count: 1622
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg, and is also a character of this play. ... She plays Golf and she represents the new women of 1920's. She is a selfish and dishonest women because she cheated while playing golf in a tournament. ... Myrtle is very poor so she sticks with Tom out of town lying to her husband. ... Like Gatsby, sometimes I feel like I will do anything to get my man if something happens to our relationship. ...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Tom and Daisy ARE money: " and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. ( p.12) "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." (p.186) Even for Myrtle it is the acquisition of vulgar objects which lifts her out of the poverty of her situation: "At the news-stand she bought a copy of Town Tattle and a moving-picture magazine...she let ...

• Word Count: 1337
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

But it's no surprise why the people of the Valley of Ashes disillusion themselves in this gloomy town. ... Color plays a major part of the symbolism in the novel. ... Although Scrimgeour saw his styling as a problem, he also states, "The Great Gatsby is of course brilliant and its historical position as one of the earliest American novels to attempt twentieth century techniques guarantees it a major position in our literary hierarchy." ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Much of our literature is based on the time of which it was written. Society as a whole, its people ad events as well as the author's living environment, play a big role in how a piece of work turns out. ... They"re both small-town westerners trying to make it in a big Eastern city. ...

• Word Count: 1897
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Even our current president's general election campaign slogan was simply "hope". ... A conspicuous example of his desperate attempt to portray his mantra to his boys is seen when he says, "America is full of beautiful towns and fine, upstanding people. ... Although a sincere and desperate hope is portrayed throughout the play through Willy, the important fact is that this hope never comes to avail. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6

Although most people view this period as a happy, enjoyable, innocent time in our countries" history, Fitzgerald had an opposing idea. ... In Fitzgerald's novel, the town is split into two sections which are East and West Egg. ... They "play both sides of the fence" so that they won't fail to spot any opportunities that could benefit themselves. ... If everyone applies these lessons to their lives, we can improve our society and ourselves. ...

• Word Count: 1839
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School