The Great Gatsby
Novel to film:
Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.
Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
“ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).
“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).
”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).
“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).
Article from class today on the green light:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1
and one on the American Dream:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1
This article is about Jay Gatsby as a dreamer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:
http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php
The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):
http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html
Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby
Race and The Great Gatsby:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/
https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf
http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article
For the film..
