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F. Scott Fitzergerald "Great Gatsby" Interplay of reality and illusion
... did not want to deal with the reality that confronted him upon returning from the war. Fortunately, he had 'an extraordinary gift, ... shoots him in the pool. This, however, is merely symbolic of reality crashing down on what Gatsby had created. Firstly, his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Shelter in Fantasy: A Structuralist's View of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
... of cruel reality. Reality overwhelms his fantasy and his hope can never be fulfilled. Lastly, the sudden ending of his fantasy demonstrates another binary opposition of ... from a civilian into a war criminal. The appearance of a prosperous military service is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The "Falseness" of the American Dream in Arthur Miller's Writing
... Reality. The origins of the American Dream seem to have been rooted in the pioneering mentality of the 18th and 19th century immigrants, most of ... of the American Dream in post-World War II times. The disintegration of the American Dream after World War ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
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... a preview for the reality of life during wartime. When his true ambition to seek out the war was made possible, Hemingway ... his experiences in war through the character of Frederic Henry. Using a masterful depiction of the impersonal cruelty of war, the key ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Denial as a Theme of "In the Lake of the Woods".
... War. In his childhood years, John Wade definitely had some "painful realities" to deal with. In my opinion, the original source of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Escapes from reality in "A Separate Peace"
... 's ways stood out the most. One way of escaping reality was through Finny's invented game of Blitzball. The boys escaped school from the ... to accomplish. While training, the boys are trying to forget the war, but according to Gene's own words it doesn't work ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"War" By Luigi Pirandello: Peoples Reaction to War
... of their masks and confronted with reality. In the second paragraph of the story, Pirandello crash-lands the reader into a scene of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Annoted Bibliography for a few books
... reality of racism and problems against black identity. He became famous after his work was rated as most important work since World War ... trouble inside of the murderer with realities of society through this psychological story. Also, his expression of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath.
... of others' lives and suffering, and aimed at foregrounding the complex instability of the boundaries between myth and reality that forms the root of the problematic placement of ... most of her generation, was the prospect of nuclear war. With the cold war at ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Modernism, Modernists in American Literature, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and T.S Eliot.
... the text. Wallace Stevens was against to war he see poetry as a way of understanding reality. Robert Frost had a different ... of war because they were separated from Europe. In 1941 they entered Second World War, many young generation were sent to war. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry