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The Great Gatsby -- Penguin Critical Studies Guide
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 ...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
November 25th 2003
by Penguin Global
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"The Great Gatsby" is one of the greatest works of 1920's literature. It also serves as one of the best windows into the wasteful lives of the diletantes who amassed great wealth in that decade before the bills for unregulated greed became due. Fitzgerald was a young Army officer in World War I who met a teenaged beauty, Zelda Sayre, while training in the South. They were engaged after the war but Zelda called it off because Fitzgerald was not wealthy enough to provide her with the lif...more
So, I hear if you read The Great Gatsby for school you are destined to hate it, and if you read it for your own personal betterment, you will love it. I read it for as a high school junior and found it mediocre. Maybe, there is hope for me to discover it is actually the greatest triumph of English literature...but unless I deign to pick it up again it will remain an ok book in my eyes.
Sad book, but teaches a good life lesson I guess.
The first parts bored me, the climax didn't got me however, i liked the overall impression of the book.
REad this in HS and hated it. I think it's an age thing. I just went back to give it a proper read and I loved it.
Actually started it and finished it on Saturday. Fell in love with Gatsby. Great classic and recommend for anyone to re-read!
Actually started it and finished it on Saturday. Fell in love with Gatsby. Great classic and recommend for anyone to re-read!
It was okay.
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The Great Gatsby was an exciting and endearing book to read. Fitzgerald's novel follows the love story between a rich woman and poor soldier in the 1920's. The book drew me in with the first sentence and I could not put it down. Gatsby is one of the most romantic characters that I have read. I read the book because it is Fitzgerald's most famous piece of writing and it lives up to the expectation of "Best 20th-Century American Novel." This novel went above and beyond what I expect...more
Well written, but I had to read it in High School, so of course, I didn't want to. I should read this again, because it is a really good book.
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such a complex stupid drama man... i wasted my valuable time...
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One of my fav books of all times- and one of the best 20th century novels.
Interesting story on how screwed up love and society can be.
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