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"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Like Daisy to its titular character, its spell lingers through the years
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American ...
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'The Great Gatsby' turns 100. What's it like teaching it today?
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning of the world." The novel's main characters are young in a restless ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ themes of wealth, insecurity and the American Dream endure
Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great ... Gatsby’s desperate pursuit of acceptance through wealth. “Books are like brothers,” Fitzgerald once reflected, revealing how deeply personal his charact ...
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The Great Gatsby
Plot F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby focuses on the life and relationships of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man with a murky past, and his doomed love for Daisy Buchanan. Characters Further ...
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At 100 “The Great Gatsby” is as urgent as ever, old sport
A quarter of “The Great ... Jay Gatsby bumps into Nick Carraway, the narrator, and the legend at last enters the action in person. Gatsby is as much a rumour as a character, a phantom in his ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...