American Life in the Great Gatsby and the Harlem Renaissance The Great Gatsby and the Harlem Renaissance (the world of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy and the other inhabitants of Long Island, New York are the other side of the coin compared to th Continue Reading...
Gatsby and Six Passing for white -- Both a white and a black man can 'pass' The Great Gatsby, only six degrees and six decades separate from Will Smith's Paul Perhaps, if F. Scott Fitzgerald were to write his famous The Great Gatsby today, Gatsby Continue Reading...
Gender as Prison At first reading, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale seem to have little to do with each other except for the very general fact that both novels have elements of social and political commentary in th Continue Reading...
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."(Johnson, 139) Nevertheless, this only increases his feeling that he does not belong to his ow Continue Reading...
" Prohibition, the Red Scare, and the Klan were responses to the flapper, reflecting anxieties about newly pluralistic demographics in the form of Mexican and Japanese immigrants as well as Africa-Americans and religious minorities such as Jewish peo Continue Reading...
political and social climate of the U.S. during the 1920s and what brought about the 'roaring '20s." The apocalyptic environment of World War I with its finale brought about a relief throughout Western Europe and the U.S.A. And the feeling that the Continue Reading...
