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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.
But beneath all the decadence and romance, The Great Gatsby is a severe criticism of American upper class values. Fitzgerald uses the book’s central conflict between Tom Buchanan and...
Sep 23, 2020 · The Great Gatsby was intended to mark a peculiarly personal kind of breakthrough. In contrast to Fitzgerald’s apprentice novels This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922), it offered a critique, not simply a reflection, of his romantic temperament.
- Leo Robson
Apr 10, 2015 · Culture. To Its Earliest Reviewers, Gatsby Was Anything but Great. The canonical novel, published 90 years ago today, was initially deemed "unimportant," "painfully forced," " no more than a...
The Great Gatsby Criticism. Introduction; Principal Works; Essays Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator; The Great Gatsby and the Great American Novel
It is in this light that Gatsby criticism often seems to dig its heels in, roll up its sleeves, and perform analysis, i.e., reveal these puffed-up Appearances and Myths for what they truly are: spurious, specious and inflated.
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Dec 30, 2020 · Our critic considers why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic inspires and withstands so much interpretation.
