English Gatsby Study Guide Answers
A 100-page photocopiable Video PDF offering:. imaginative strategies for reading and working on key aspects of the text (including voice, structure, characterisation, themes, the role of Nick as storyteller).
a focus on close linguistic analysis: symbolism, lexical clusters. ideas for relating the text to its historical, social and cultural, literary contexts, with images from the period. active approaches to critical material. creative writing and media approaches. The PDF also includes a video interview of Gatsby expert Nicolas Tredell talking about the novel. This download publication includes a separate Word document: a chapter-by-chapter version of the text of The Great Gatsby which has been ‘collapsed’, with all the words organised alphabetically and with each new word on a different line, to use both as a print out, or on computer. A note on the text This Video PDF download edition of Studying ‘The Great Gatsby’ is an edited version of the print and DVD resource published by the English and Media Centre in 2009.
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Published in 1925, is widely considered to be F. Scott Fitzergerald's greatest novel. It is also considered a seminal work on the fallibility of the American dream. It focuses on a young man, Jay Gatsby, who, after falling in love with a woman from the social elite, makes a lot of money in an effort to win her love. She marries a man from her own social strata and he dies disillusioned with the concept of a self-made man. Fitzgerald seems to argue that the possibility of social mobility in America is an illusion, and that the social hierarchies of the 'New World' are just as rigid as those of Europe. The novel is also famous as a description of the 'Jazz Age,' a phrase which Fitzgerald himself coined.
After the shock of moving from a policy of isolationism to involvement in World War I, America prospered in what are termed the 'Roaring Twenties.' The Eighteenth Amendment to the American Constitution, passed in 1919, prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol in America. 'Prohibition' made millionaires out of bootleggers like Gatsby and owners of underground salons, called 'speakeasies.' Fitzgerald glamorizes the noveau riche of this period to a certain extent in his Jazz Age novel.
He describes their beautiful clothing and lavish parties with great attention to detail and wonderful use of color. However, the author was uncomfortable with the excesses of the period, and his novel sounds many warning notes against excessive love of money and material success. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was not a great success during his lifetime, but became a smash hit after his death, especially after World War II.
It has since become a staple of the canon of American literature, and is taught at many high schools and universities across the country and the world. Four films, an opera, and a play have been made from the text. How To Cite in MLA Format Ross, Jeremy. Nolan, Rachel ed.
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