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Jan 11, 2021 · A week is unwarranted. It should be consumed in the course of a day. Two at most. Otherwise, all the mystery seeps away, leaving Jay Gatsby lingering, ethereal but elusive, like cologne somebody else is wearing. I have read The Great Gatsby four times. Only in this most recent time did I choose to attack it in a single sitting. I’m an ...
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 ...
May 31, 2013 · The magician's confession came back into my mind when, a few months ago, I re-read The Great Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald's novel - now in cinemas again - about a magnetically attractive millionaire ...
Apr 26, 2021 · When Nick Caraway moves to New York, seeking something more than the empty comforts of the Midwest, he finds himself the neighbor of the elusive Jay Gatsby. After connecting with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, Nick eventually becomes one of Gatsby’s many guests, unaware that the mystery man is harboring designs on stealing Daisy away from her ...
Dec 30, 2020 · One of the pleasures of writing about a book as widely read as “The Great Gatsby” is jetting through the obligatory plot summary. You recall Nick Carraway, our narrator, who moves next door to ...
Dec 3, 2017 · In the book, Fitzgerald more or less predicts the Stock Market Crash of 1929. After a summer of wild parties and booze-soaked soirées, a drunken Daisy runs down Myrtle killing her in the road ...
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Sep 8, 2014 · In So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan looks at the story behind The Great Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's life to the era in which it's set. She says it's her favorite novel, but it wasn't always.
