.... wealthy for several generations occupy the sophisticated East Side; in order to buy an apartment there one must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and therefore less desirable for it is open to the “new money.” By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby’s persona is surrounded by different rumors, and “contemporary legends such as the ‘underground pipe-line to Canada’ attached themselves to his name,” people come to his parties. Money can buy one popularit .....

.... a deviation. The reader would see this attitude when Aunt Harriet visits the Strorms and brings her deviant child with her: "Send her away. Tell her to leave the house - and take that with her." (p.71) Joseph did not show any sympathy at all toward his own sister in law. Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Mrs. Strorm. She enters the story half way through the book, where she goes to Mrs. Strorm seeking help. Yet the help she is looking for is not something Mrs. Strorm agrees with: "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, stro .....

.... a rough rugged man who is very mean. He is also described as a person who is not well dressed and very dirty and scruffy looking. When she encounters the Misfit she is surprised at how wrong she was. The Misfit is a very well dressed man who looks very clean and innocent, according to the grandmother. He would not be mistaken for a criminal. This surprises the grandmother, because he not only is very innocent looking but he is acting very intelligently. He presents himself in a very polite manner, and his facial expressions and his clothing speak very highly of himself. He acts very polite under the circumstances, which is out in the mi .....

.... take a bribe in lines 75-78 of Act 4, Scene 3. "By any indirection: I did send to you for gold to pay my legions, which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?" This is an honesty that gained him the respect of the people. Brutus was a naive man as well. Sincerity is often misconstrued as being naive; however, I will treat each as a separate characteristic. Brutus's naive spirit is mostly shown not in one single action, but in the overall willingness he has to believe that those around him are essentially good. "Only be patient till we have appeased the multitude, beside themselves with fear, and then we will deli .....

.... to say that life is here and it must be lived. It is real and not just some dream. Line five supports this with the hopeful exclamation that “Life is real! Life is earnest!� In the next line he says “And the grave is not its goal�. Longfellow feels you don’t live to die. Death is not the point of living a just life. Lastly in this stanza, he states, �Dust thou art, o dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul�. Our bodies will turn to dust but the soul will live on. He feel there is an afterlife and we are here forever in spirit. But what we do with our time on earth is what makes us eternal because we are remembered fo .....

.... furthers his humour – this time through ignorance – when he proclaims “What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own do you?” (III, i, 107 – 108). Here - in his ignorance of the ass-head on him – he insults his friend in a very humorous manner. Bottom is a very humorous character utilised to his full potential in this play. A second, possibly even more humorous character in this play, is the fairy – Puck. One farcical example of Puck’s sense of jocularity is when the fairy and Puck are discussing Puck’s ludicrous pranks: “…sometime for a three-foot stool mistaketh me; .....

.... his know-it-all personality. While Ralph on the other hand was the stereotypical image of an ordinary boy. Piggy had no friends, besides those that he lived with. Thus was not used to being among other children. He quickly trusted, and latched onto Ralph, ignoring Ralph’s constant teasing . Ralph was insecure as all boys his age are, he didn’t really want to be caught liking the outcast so he teased him. “I don’t care what they call me, so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school…They used to call me Piggy” (Golding: pg.11) Piggy confided to Ralph, asking him to be se .....

.... strong he is also very intelligent. He knows when to do the right thing at the right moment. He carved beeswax from an enormous cube to give to his men to put in their ears so they didn't have to listen to the Siren's songs. Since Odysseus didn't have any leftover beeswax for his ears, he had to resist the temptation of hearing the songs. Secondly, he tricked the Cyclops and got away in time before he was killed. Third, Odysseus sends just two of his men, instead of the whole group, to find out about the songs. If he sent them all, they may have got killed. Even though Odysseus is strong and intelligent, he also has enough self-conf .....

.... We are regaled with story upon story of the Greeks, their heroes, and their exploits, while the Trojan's are conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout t .....

.... of his animals, his sick and hungry children, and his unproductive crops. He inadvertently summons the Devil and makes a deal with him (188-189). The deal stipulates that Jabez would have great success in all his undertakings, and that in seven years time he would relinquish his soul to the Devil; known in this story as “Scratch” (194). Jabez becomes very prosperous, but there exists an underlying anxiety deep inside that grows with each passing year. Jabez’ anxiety turns to sick horror as a moth-like creature desperately pleads to him for help. Jabez soon learns that the creature that had fluttered out of the Devil& .....