.... it’s a girl. And I hope she’ ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’” (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her personality. Daisy is also very confused about what she wants. When she is faced with having to make a decision between Jay Gatsby, her old love, and Tom Buchanan, her husband, she is not sure whom to choose. It is a choice that is based upon remaining materialistic, “old money,” with Tom or being torn apart from her once true love, “new m .....

.... with the barest necessities. Cholly dies alone in a warehouse. Claudia MacTeer is the main narrator in the story. She is about nine years old when they story takes place, she is remembering the story. Claudia is black and doesn't see anything wrong with that. She isn't like the other girls who think it would be better if she was white, she doesn't buy into that idea, she destroys the white dolls that she receives for Christmas. Claudia has learned from her mother how to be a strong black female and express her opinion in a white dominated society. Frieda is a lot like her sister and had the .....

.... and in that time had produced an amount of work large in quantity and excellent in quality, much of it belonging in the very highest rank of imaginative prose; but his books had never sold, and the income from his tales and other papers in the magazines when he was not attached to a magazine had never suffice to keep the wolf from the door." (Woodberry 2: 72) Hard times fell on Poe like raindrops falling onto the ground. The money needed to sustain his day to day needs proved insufficient. He had written many works in ten years and. Although his works were abundant, money wasn't. .....

.... simple, almost illiterate kid. Twain will often be winking at you over Huck's head, the way two grownups might be quietly amused at the naive things said by a young child. Huck tells us that he's been living with the Widow Douglas, a woman he seems to like even though she has set out to "sivilize" him. His friend, Tom Sawyer, has persuaded him to go along with her, and Huck finds himself living in a house, wearing clean clothes, and eating meals on schedul .....

.... is exemplified when he leaves his school without permission from his parents or the school. This act in itself sets the stage for his trial and error attitude about adulthood in the sense he failed out of school, which was a childish act. He tries to rectify his failing out of school by leaving, which he views as an adult act. Holden's leaving school represents his need for independence and he achieves this by leaving. Another of Holden's failed attempts at adulthood is when he goes down to he hotels club where he orders an alcoholic drink, but he is refused because the waiter will n .....

.... and Blacks were still seen as inferior by white people Blacks were segregated in schools, stores, transport and were unable to vote. Blacks were also given the menial jobs such as servants and stable bucks and not given a decent wages and credit they deserved. Ageism was also present in the 1930’s society. Old people were not treated with respect and were also often given menial low pay jobs. Steinbeck explored the social issues of the time ( such as ageism, sexism, racism and the poor) in his fictional novels. ‘Of Mice and Men’ reflects these social issues. Curley’s .....

.... who is reading this may reply by thinking More's decision was asinine. The reader may believe that life is the greatest value to man, and to place anything above it would be asinine. More's behavior was bizarre even to his own time period. His daughter, Margaret, pleaded for him to sign the oath, "Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise"(81). Her father could not morally be satisfied by this. More believed that when an oath is taken, one is placing his pledging his self and soul. " When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. .....

.... I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal. At that moment I felt that I had my whole life in front of me and I thought, "It's a damned lie." It was worth nothing because it was finished." In this passage Pablo realizes that his entire life has been a continuous sequence of events and eventually the outcome must be the same for him as well as all men, which is death. This passage also shows the reader that Pablo, like most people, deceives himself about mortality by not dealing wiht it conscientiously until it is too late. The majority of people live as if their existence is li .....

.... of characterization In the main character is . began his life as a wild wolf-dog, but he was taken by an Indian as a pup, and was domesticated. He soon learned the power of his master and obeyed his laws, even though his wild instincts told him not to, as London notes: Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct. A great awe descended upon him.....Here was mastery and power, something far and away beyond him.(London 64) was later traded to a man who used him as a figh .....

.... and greed make it impossible for her to live as she should" (Great Writers). During this time, the family name is important. The insensitivity and greed that is directed toward Tess, comes from her mother, Joan. Joan only wants Tess to marry a man with an aristocratic name so that he family can become wealthy. Tess's feelings are not considered. Therefore her life is also planned out for her, like those of the novel A Tale of Two Cities. Within the lives in Dickens' novel, there is a sense of irony from one of the characters. Dickens writes, "the prosperous patronage with which he sa .....