Critical Studies: The Great Gatsby
ISBN: 9780140771978 | 0140771972
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Penguin Global
Pub. Date: 11/25/2003
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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 chapter to Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent ... MORE
The Great Gatsby 1. The Great Gatsby: A Novel of the 1920s
The Jazz Age: 'It was borrowed time anyhow'
New York
The post-war mood
The post-war voice
2. A Novel of Intricate Patterns
The organization of The Great Gatsby
Time
The chronology of events preceding 1922 in The Great Gatsby
The summer of 1922: events in the main narrative
1923-4: after the main narrative
A summary of events
The selective use of time as a narrative device
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