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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )A writer's failures may tell us more about his art than his successes. Certainly, unpublished works may better reveal unfinished struggles than the whole or partial successes that manage to find their way into print....
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From: The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Lehan discusses the reasons why The Great Gatsby is still considered a literary classic.] Any attempt to pinpoint the importance of a work involves a slightly circular...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1IN DECEMBER 1940, after years of declining health and failing literary prospects, F. Scott Fitzgerald collapsed and died in the Hollywood apartment of Sheilah Graham, the gossip columnist he once, in a fit of pique,...
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From: The Politics of Exile: Ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Washington compares Henry James's Daisy Miller and Gatsby, emphasizing the themes of racism, white cultural conservatism, and repressed homosexuality.] Beginning with the...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 15. )Fitzgerald wrote his short story "Winter Dreams" while he was drafting The Great Gatsby, which became one of the most celebrated novels of all time. The two works share several thematic and stylistic elements as they...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 157. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Flappers and Philosophers (short stories) 1920This Side of Paradise (novel) 1920The Beautiful and Damned (novel) 1922Tales of the Jazz Age (short stories) 1922The Vegetable; or, From President to...
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From: Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a FictionIn spite of its reputation, On the Road is best understood as a skillfully managed traditional novel. Both the manuscript history and the text itself make it clear that Kerouac's most famous book is a good deal more...
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From: Studies in the NovelConsidered opinion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel has not changed much since 1924 when Edmund Wilson labelled it "a phantasmagoria of incident which had no dominating intention to endow it with unity and force, . ....
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From: Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Kehl and Cooper explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascination with Arthurian myths, focusing on his use of the Grail legend in The Great Gatsby in particular.] Near the end of...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 178. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Sherwood AndersonWinesburg, Ohio (short stories) 1919Djuna BarnesNightwood (novel) 1936Sylvia BeachShakespeare and Company (autobiography) 1959Morley CallaghanThat Summer in Paris (autobiography)...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date winter 2000) In the following essay, Seguin uses the theme of "ressentiment" (loosely, the envy of the lower toward the upper classes) to explore Fitzgerald's social sensibilities in Gatsby, also noting...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Like so many modern American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald created a public image of himself as a representative figure of his times, which may have been a part of the promotional campaign to sell his fiction. It worked...
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From: Explicator[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Kumamoto explores Fitzgerald's use of the "egg and chicken" metaphors as part of Gatsby's structure.] Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Having moved to the suburbs of New...
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From: Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class, and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Lena evaluates the importance of contemporary theories on race and the decline of western civilization to Fitzgerald in his creation of The Great Gatsby. He argues that “racist...
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From: Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual[(essay date 1979) In the following essay, Cheatham summarizes what is known about a 1926 play by American dramatist Owen Davis that was based on The Great Gatsby, noting that although the play had some popular success,...
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From: Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Batchelor makes the case for The Great Gatsby’s reputation as the “Great American Novel.” Citing its “sales and readership over the past nearly ninety years, its ubiquity in...
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From: The Winding Road to West Egg: The Artistic Development of F. Scott Fitzgerald[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Roulston and Roulston present an overview of the elements of Fitzgerald's style in The Great Gatsby.] Fitzgerald did not care much for the title of his most perfect book. When...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[In the following excerpt, Lisca reflects on the character of Nick Carraway, representing order and decorum, and his role as narrator.] It generally has been noted, of course, that Nick's sentiments [in The Great...
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From: Literature in America[(essay date 1957) In the following essay, Kazin compares the satirical style of Cather and Glasgow. Commenting on Glasgow’s portrayal of Southern life, Kazin observes that the author “did not quarrel with her heritage;...
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From: Space Between[(essay date 2010) In the following revised version of her essay, which originally appeared in Space Between, Froehlich argues that Fitzgerald's use of scientific racialist discourse in The Great Gatsby was less aimed at...