Webpages on The Great Gatsby
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The Critical Reception of The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby now holds an undeniable place among the masterpieces of twentieth-century American literature.
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The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of ArtThe Great Gatsby works on the mind of the reader in two ways: first by presenting the real world (and its appearance is ugly at best) through the eyes of Nick Carraway and second by presenting Gatsby’s fantasy world..
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The importance of the past in The Great GatsbyGreat emphasis is placed on the past throughout 'The Great Gatsby'. The past of five years ago comes to meet Daisy and Gatsby in the novel, drawing them both into an emotional extramarital affair based on only a memory of love they once shared
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The Great Gatsby - LitchartsChapter wise analysis and thematic classification
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THE GREAT GATSBY & HIS ERAAn Internet Hotlist on GREAT GATSBY ERA
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Anima Woman in F Scott Fitzgerald's GatsbyIn Fitzgerald's classic tale of vacuous materialism, Daisy Buchanan sacrifices her self for opulence as she carries her husband's anima projection.
About author F. Scott Fitzgerald
The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.
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F Scott Fitzgerald - BiographyFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem.
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Featured Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldWith News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American DreamF. Scott Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream - the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure
Images - America in the 1920s
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American Life in the 1920sCollection of wide variety of images
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Study Questions for the Great Gatsby(This list is general and not reflective of your class in TTS)
More Books in Senior Library
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0521624746Specially-commissioned essays by major scholars present a clear and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. No aspect of his career is overlooked--from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with an accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The volume offers readers a complete account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further reading. -
The Great Gatsby The Limits Of Wonder by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0805780130In this study Richard Lehan argues that The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest American novels, crafted of rich symbolism and a narrative style that reflects the moral ambiguity of the 1920s period it depicts. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0761419470"A biography of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, that describes his era, his major works, his life, and the legacy of his writing"-- -
New Essays on the Great Gatsby by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0521319633Provides students of American Literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction.
Books in Senior Library
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0786709960The "colossal affair" that is Jay Gatsby's mansion, Owl Eyes, Wolfsheim and his "gonnegtions," West Egg, East Egg, the valley of ashes, Jordan Baker, and Daisy Fay;they belong to all time as does the American classic in which they appear. -
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0231115350More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsbythan on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guideintroduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques and explore the influence of this "Lost Generation" work on later American writings. -
The Great Gatsby by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0140771972Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the jazz age firmly in the context of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to F. Scott Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American Dream. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby by Call Number: 813ISBN: 0582823102York notes advanced -
The Great Gatsby by Call Number: 813ISBN: 079107577X- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom
