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Discusses appearance vs reality and  talks about the hypocrisy of the morality of the time period: rich people can have the poorest morals of everyone, yet it is more acceptable than poor people with good morals

Talks about themes such as setting and appearance vs reality. Clearly, people aren't focused on internal qualities such as politics or religion; the rich care only about how they are perceived and how they appear. The need for social acceptance gives way to the appearance vs reality theme

this shows the symbolism in which the American dream is corrupt through which gatsbys house is empty. it shows that the true american dream is not reachable

this quote discusses the american dream and how fitzgerald but emphasis on its corruption to show the time period. it shows how people try to grow socially but then cannot reach their goals

This quote discusses the reality of the american dream and how it appears to those in search of it. It shows the connection between the jungle, and grapes of wrath

This shows the symbolism of the color green in which Ftizgerald uses colors to express his themes and the setting which symbolizes the social classes on a larger scale

Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.

Discusses the impact of setting on the plot and purpose of the novel, and how the various rich groups have corrupted the American dream from an innocent, ambitious hope for fortune into greed, debauchery, and misbehavior

This article discusses discriminatory barriors women continue to face. This includes lower pay, the notion of sex-segregated professions, and the general preference of male workers to female workers in certain sectors of society.

"That's because U.S. women still earned only 77 cents on the male dollar in 2008, according to the latest census statistics."

Virginia wolf demonstrates her frustration about the slow progress of women's rights. This document specifically showcases exactly how slow this progress is. Like the reform movements of other cases of social injustice, change is hard to come about. In the Grapes of Wrath, the migrant workers wait forever for change to occur in their awful lives.

This article covers the debate over whether or not women should be allowed to participate in combat in the military. Like In a room of one's own, it is a matter of social inequality. At the time a room of one's own was written, women we're considered not good enough to be writers. Perhaps in the future, women will be considered good enough to participate in combat.

The site points out that Woolf points out that women were inhibited from success, and typically doomed to failure as a result of the restrictions placed upon them from society. They couldn't be financially independent, so they never had time to learn and experience the world, so they weren't intellectually free, etc.

The Times brings up an interesting point. Men struggled and still succeeded. Women struggled and got nowhere. Part of it must be the culture, where women often did not usually exert themselves to something ambitious, whereas men are expected to. For most of the women's rights movement, perhaps the goal wasn't to force the institution to create laws for equality, but in the bigger picture, sense that it was to show women had initiative, motivation and a purpose. 

This is sad. What Woolf describes in her essay, that a woman must have means and money to be able to think freely, one would think that a woman in a modern society, where no continent is neglected of technology and accessible tools for the creative space, is able to share her own thoughts and words to express her mind. No-- her concerns nearly a century ago ring true today, women are commodities, sold to slavery, prostitution, forced marriage, social censorship, many women of the world are trapped in a system constantly exploited by men. 

"In addition access to education has brought about a large increase in the number of women students, such that women now outnumber men in many nations' schools."

"Upon achieving greater educational and employment access, women entered both of these spheres in record numbers."

This article deals with the feminist movement throughout history and the changes that the movement brought about. Since "A Room of One's Own" is a composition imbuing feminist ideals, a feminist article provides insight to the leading causes of the feminist movement and the state of the feminist movement in Virginia Woolf's time. The article expresses the changes that the various women's movements have brought about including equality in education and careers.

"The conclusion of A Room of One's Own puts forward Woolf s famous idea that the mind of the artist is androgynous, which means that there is a little bit of the masculine in every feminine brain, and vice versa."

"Victorian mores had, at least until the turn of the century, dictated the "proper" female roles of wife and mother, dutiful daughter, and overall gentle angel in the house."

This article discusses the main attributes of "A Room of One's Own" such as plot, themes, and authorial purpose. At Woolf's time, society perceives men as the superior gender and therefore society grants them more opportunities than women to succeed. Woolf's issue with this unfair treatment is the driving force in her piece of writing. Woolf also introduces the idea of the balance of feminism and masculinity in both genders. A person is not able to write great literature when their gender is pervading their writing.

"Until comparatively recent times, most women lived in such a world, for discrimination based on gender was the rule in almost every culture. Yet even in the most repressive times and places, writers of both sexes have protested the discrimination against women that was so thoroughly woven into the fabric of society that many people simply could not recognize the inequities."

This article focuses on women in literature. The main issue in feminist literature is the inequalities between the genders. The opportunities presented to each gender skew towards the male portion of the population. "A Room of One's Own" provides prominent examples of the discrepancies between females and males.

Virginia Woolf talks about how a woman needs a room of one's own in order to write. But what about the room that Virginia Woolf wrote in herself? This source talks about the house that she lived in when she wrote the book and how it is getting sold by her family.