- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK; Stg edition (Nov 1 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140771972
- ISBN-13: 978-0140771978
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #522,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the "Jazz Age" firmly in the context of 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 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.
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After achieving success and recognition with the publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, Scott Fitzgerald chose both to identify his writing career with the ebullience and optimism of the decade, and also to be its keen critic. Read the first page
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After achieving success and recognition with the publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, Scott Fitzgerald chose both to identify his writing career with the ebullience and optimism of the decade, and also to be its keen critic. Read the first page
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The Careless 20's,
By Victoria (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Critical Studies Great Gatsby (Paperback)
The Great Gatsby is one of those books which on the first time you read it, it goes right over the top of your head. The plot is in total only a few pages in total, but the characters and the point and theme are what make the story. The characters, except for Gatsby and Nick, are very careless; they don't care what happens around them, or what they cause. They spend their life visiting other careless people, or lying around doing nothing, or going to parties.You do not finish this book with a sense that you have read all 170 pages... most of the story is thought, character and description. However, the window this book gives on the time of post first world war wealthy America draws you in to experience the hopeless state of the society and the tragic results of their carelessness on other people.
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Wonderfully written, a masterpiece.,
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This review is from: Critical Studies Great Gatsby (Paperback)
A very thought-provoking piece displaying life as it was in the 1920's. The beliefs, aspirations, and hopes of a nation caught in a beautiful rendition of the people during the Jazz Age. The narrator, Nick, is a bystander as his wonderfully rich neighbor, Gatsby, attempts to regain what he lost in the past--a woman named Daisy. Simply wonderful.To whoever said the author was sexist and racist... what the characters state in the book has nothing to do with the authors personal feelings... Try to make that distinction, because what you said sounded ridiculously stupid and naive.
5.0 out of 5 stars
dreams,
This review is from: Critical Studies Great Gatsby (Paperback)
This book is about knowing that some dreams are too far from reach, yet we still always try to attain them. Like Gatsby, we are taunted by how close we can come to that dream, but in the end, we realize that our efforts are fruitless. Each of us have our own "Daisy" -- each person did during the 20's, each person does now, each person will in the future -- The Great Gatsby is a classic. Fitzgerald does a fantastic job depicting a timeless theme that people of all time periods have experienced.
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