Fitzgerald Essays

A distant relative of the writer of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

In Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey, Odysseus leads his men through the unthinkable, and

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done

The novella The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, has themes and characters which parallel some of

A truly great work of literature would allow a reader to compare and/or contrast any

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920’s, a period of

Fitzgerald not only condemns the American Dream but sets the death and downfall of the

1. Fitzgerald’s use of a flashback is more effective than chronological order because it made

How similar are an arrogant, wealthy man, a poor mechanic’s wife, and a Southern beauty?

By comparing and contrasting George Wilson and Tom Buchanan we discover several new insights due