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    play as irksome and uneventful as The Glass Menagerie‚ could also write something as interesting as A Streetcar Named Desire. However‚ both are written extremely well by Tennessee Williams. Despite the differences‚ there are many similarities in themes and patterns. Once each play is picked apart and analyzed‚ it is very obvious that they are both written by the same author. A major theme in both plays in the dependence on men. Throughout The Glass Menagerie‚ references are made to Tom and Laura’s father

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    ENG 4U ! Unit 3: Novel Study Novel Study: The Great Gatsby Tatiana Rios Assignment Questions 1. Who is morally responsible for Gatsby’s death? In The Great Gatsby‚ Daisy and Tom Buchanan are the two most responsible for Gatsby’s death. At the hotel in New York‚ Tom became hostile towards Gatsby and began to question him about his business practices as well as his past‚ calling him a fraud. Gatsby responds by urging Daisy to tell Tom that she does not love him. As the tension began

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    Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie offers a glimpse into the dark side of the American family. Representationally dysfunction‚ the Wingfield family is a typical American unit who survive the unpleasant intrusion of reality upon their lives by creating their own illusions to deny the emptiness of their existence. It is the relationship between the mother‚ Amanda‚ and her daughter Laura that best exemplifies the play’s theme of the futility of attempting to escape reality which depicts

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    Glass Essay Deception is everywhere is the world and sometime you can help being deceived. Tennessee Williams’‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ take place in the early 1930’s. A family of three struggles to maintain united after the absence of their father. Amanda‚ the mother of Tom and Laura relies on her son to keep up with the bill and on her daughter to get her education and find a husband. Meanwhile all tom wants to do is leave as his father did so he could seek adventure and Laura has dropped out of

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    Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie is similar and different in many ways to Tennessee Williams. His mother is a borderline hysteric‚ his sister is schizophrenic‚ and he is an alcohol addict‚ and his father was a traveling sales man and was never home. In this draft we will see the similarities between Tennessee Williams real family and the family in The Glass Menagerie. But fist lets take a look about his biography. Thomas Lanier Williams‚ born (March 26 1911) was an American writer‚ primarily

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby completes a decline from his carefully crafted image of greatness to his exposed‚ unsightly‚ and lonely death. The story of the novel is really the deconstruction of this image‚ and the various ways in which the true “Jay Gatz” is uncovered. Hailing from a middle-class‚ rural family‚ Gatsby… The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby - The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze information and present it so that the observer is able

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    2013 The Great Gatsby Paper In the beginning of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Nick doesn’t care too much for Gatsby‚ but later Nick begins to like Gatsby‚ and by the end‚ Nick and Gatsby become best friends. It is sort of weird how their relationship develops‚ and the reason it develops. Nick and Gatsby seem to be two totally different people‚ but I guess opposites attract. In the beginning of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Nick doesn’t care too much for Gatsby. Nick thinks that Gatsby is kind of

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    Story in Chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby? In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby‚ the theme of love becomes ever more apparent as does Gatsby’s true self. These emotions are revealed to the reader as the chapter progresses and Gatsby becomes more confident around Daisy. Fitzgerald uses only two settings for chapter 5 in order to draw parallels between the change of scene and the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. At the start of the chapter - where Nick‚ Daisy and Gatsby are gathered in Nick’s house

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    Reading Assignment Gatsby The lavish extravagant persona of Jay Gatsby was fabricated over many years. As a boy born from poverty‚ James Gatz always saw himself as more than a farmer‚ but as the son of God. When a wealthy man Dan Cody is under the influence and in trouble at sea‚ James Gatz sees his chance to remake himself into the millionaire Jay Gatsby. The name Gatsby becomes a superpower and legendary figure to Long Island and New York inhabitants who attend his parties. Gatsby‚ a mysterious millionaire

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    Americans that no matter what origin born into‚ an individual can succeed in life on the sore basis of his or her own skill level. Written about the 1920’s‚ Great Gatsby tells the story from Nick Carraway’s perspective as he introduces readers to the time period of glamour‚ wealth‚ and for some‚ depending on the American Dream. In Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses literary devices to criticize the change in morality of the roaring twenties‚ which old values expressed in the American Dream are destroyed

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