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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe world's most misunderstood novel - BBC

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   The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began from its first publication.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Great_GatsbyThe Great Gatsby - Wikipedia

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   The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

   • Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

   • Publish Year: 1925

4. www.enotes.com › topics › great-gatsbyIs Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" good or bad? - eNotes.com

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   However, despite these negative qualities, Gatsby still comes across as mostly a good person. Charming, outgoing, and generous, he's someone readers could easily imagine being friends with.

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6. interestingliterature.com › 2021 › 03A Summary and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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   Mar 30, 2021 · The fact that Gatsby is innocent of the two crimes or sins which motivate Wilson – his wife’s adultery with Tom and Daisy’s killing of Myrtle with Gatsby’s car – hardly matters: it shows the subtle interconnectedness of these people’s lives, despite their socioeconomic differences.

7. paw.princeton.edu › article › enduring-power-gatsbyThe Enduring Power of Gatsby - Princeton Alumni Weekly

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   Jan 27, 2016 · That scene, though, is the denial of love, the end of love, the dismissal of what Gatsby has felt for Daisy: the end of the relationship that is, quite literally, at the heart of the novel. Is Gatsby a love story? Before we come to Jay and Daisy, consider the other love stories in the novel.

8. bookanalysis.com › f-scott-fitzgerald › the-great-gatsbyThe Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald - Book Analysis

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   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925 in New York City. It is considered to be Fitzgerald’s best and most famous novel. It depicts the lives of characters entangled in the New York City social scene, in dangerous love affairs, and endless wealth.

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   Was the Great Gatsby a sensational story?

   • Full-length scholarly articles on Fitzgerald's works were being published in periodicals and, by the following year, the earlier consensus among professional critics that The Great Gatsby was merely a sensational story or a nostalgic period piece had effectively vanished. [ 166 ]

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   Why is the Great Gatsby considered a great American novel?

   • Scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited versus self-made wealth, gender, race, and environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American Dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterpiece and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.

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   Was the Great Gatsby a crime novel?

   • Fellow writers like Edith Wharton admired it plenty, but as the critic Maureen Corrigan relates in her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures, popular reviewers read it as crime fiction, and were decidedly underwhelmed by it at that. Fitzgerald's Latest A Dud, ran a headline in the New York World.

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   Were early readers fond of The Great Gatsby?

   • Upon its April 1925 publication, early readers were not fond of The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald kept some of the first reviews in his Gatsby scrapbook, now in The Fitzgerald Papers of Princeton’s library, sometimes with his withering or self-deprecating comments appended.

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   What books are similar to the Great Gatsby?

   • Other books readers might find comparable to The Great Gatsby include The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Fitzgerlad’s 1922 novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. The latter was published right before The Great Gatsby and tells the story of a socialite and heir to a massive fortune.

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   Is the Great Gatsby a good book?

   • By the mid-2000s, many literary critics considered The Great Gatsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written, [ 174 ] and the work was part of the assigned curricula in the near majority of U.S. high schools. [ 158 ]

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10. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerThe Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby - The New Yorker

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    May 13, 2013 · Gatsby’s romantic fantasy, his love story, exerts the most force in the novel. Gatsby’s organized his life around one big idea: that love, at its best, is permanent and impersonal.