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Not as advertised: The false god in 'The Great Gatsby'
God is so absent from the world of “The Great Gatsby” that the closest any character can get to him is to turn to this vague ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imagination
On Friday night the tower lights of the Empire State Building turn green in elegant tribute to The Great Gatsby, the slender ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
But the banners aren't reading the novel carefully enough. For, even as The Great Gatsby tells us the American Dream may be a mirage, it does so in some of the most beautiful language anyone has ...
The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...
'The Great Gatsby' Turns 100 Today. Its Fashion Influence Is Still Going Strong.
The Jazz Age novel has inspired designers from Ralph Lauren to Miuccia Prada The traffic light turns green on a crowded jag ...
‘The Great Gatsby’ Is 100, and as Fresh as Ever
A century after “The Great Gatsby” was first published, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s slender novel about a mysterious, lovelorn ...
"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the ...
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Was Gatsby Actually Black? As Novel Turns 100, One East Bay English Class Makes the Case
The discourse over Gatsby’s race has been ongoing for years. Janet Savage, a California writer and attorney, released her ...
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Not-so-great Gatsby
But here's the thing: Gatsby was never meant to be a vibe. He's not just a charming host with a killer view of the bay - he's ...
'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic has had a lasting cultural impact on Long Island, from its historical inspirations to its ...