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Psychoanalytical Lenses- The Great Gatsby

A Feminist Review

In this Website you may find a Feminist review done by Sohelia Pirhadi, her work and review of her feminist lens and her criticism of The Great Gatsby. 

A Psychoanalytical lens

This website can help you get through the Psychoanalytical lens of the book.

A Marxist Lens 
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Bibliography

1. " Famous Quotes from The Great Gatsby." CliffsNotes | Literature Study Guides | Exam Prep. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2013. <http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/g/the-great-gatsby/study-help/famous-quotes-from-the-great-gatsby>. (tags: none | edit tags)
2. Dyer, Globe Staff. "`GATSBY' A NEW AMERICAN CLASSIC BORN OF ANOTHER." The Boston Globe [New York] 22 Dec. 1999: 2. Print. (tags: none | edit tags)
3. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. The great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print. (tags:none | edit tags)
4. "The Great Gatsby Quotes About Daisy Loves Gatsby Today News, Videos & Photos Live Stream." Breaking News, Today News, Videos & Photos Live Stream. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2013. <http://twigma.com/the-great-gatsby-quotes-about-daisy-loves-gatsby.html>. (tags: none | edit tags)

Memorable Quotes from 'The Great Gatsby'

“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 eternal 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, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There are a million reasons why you, the reader,  should know at least a little bit about F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and the Jazz Age; In order to understand and grasp the concept of Fitzgerald's most prestigious novel: The Great Gatsby.

The 1920s which have many names in America: the Roaring Twenties, the Boom, the Jazz Age (the name Fitzgerald himself invented). It was a period of wild economic prosperity, cultural flowering and a shaking up of social mores. Here is a video that I found very helpful for capturing the intense life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

[...] It’s like begging for mercy of a storm or killing Beauty or
 growing old, without you. Nobody’s got any right to live but us
 – and they’re dirtying up our world
and I can’t hate them because I want you so.’

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

The build-up to the release of Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic, chromatic interpretation of The Great Gatsby was a wild ride for several of us who love the F. Scott Fitzgerald. I had been very exited to watch the fantastic film, however, even in Baz Luhrmann's film, there were some aspects of the book that were not included. So, it s crucial that each and every one of Ms. Cooks students' understand the novel in another dimension and depth; take in consideration the rhetorical devices, the figurative language, the diction, the mood and tone of the Novel because It is also of extreme importance to understand the context and the Zeitgeist of the Novel and the era. Ladies and gentlemen, this is where your interpretation of the novel forms in a successful manner.  In order to grasp the process of the book In the class, Ms. Cook is going to ask for further research of your own weather it is for a project for her class or a creative writing assignment for IB. I have laid out some helpful resources down below, I went on a scavenger hunt indoors on my computer to save you some time and to expand your understanding of the Novel, so check them out because I am certain they will be of good aid. Good Luck!

• Understanding The Great Gatsby - A Research Guide for Students

 An agregation to links to all things Gatsby online

• F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Web site includes links, maps, audio clips, etc.
• C-Span American Writers II: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

 
See the Video Archive which includes a 2 hour program from 2002 on Fitzgerald and Gatsby.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page

 Trimalchio and The Great Gatsby - Online exhibition documenting the composition, reception, and reputation of The Great Gatsby.
Getting It Right: The Publishing Process and the Correction of Factual Errors – with Reference to The Great Gatsby (Matthew J. Bruccoli)

• Gatsby

 Annotations - An alphabetical glossary of terms and phrases that define and describe people, places, and things mentioned in the novel. Includes links to related web sites and audio files for the songs mentioned in the text. Ain't We Got Fun (p. 95) A-C - D-L - M-Z
 Concordance to The Great Gatsby
 Reviews from 1925

• Life Magazine's one sentence review: 
"Fantastic proof that chivalry, of a sort, is not dead." 
(May 7, 1925)• New York Times, To access this article you will need to register for free online access to the New York Times.

Time Magazine


• Flanagan, Thomas. Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'. New York Review of Books. Volume 47, Number 20, December 21, 2000. - Offers a review of Gatsby and its earlier version, Trimalchio.
• Godden, Richard. “‘The Great Gatsby’: Glamor on the Turn.” 

Journal of American Studies 16.3 (1982): 343-71. JSTOR. Web. 28 Oct. 2011 The Great Gatsby | Easy BIb Blog

• Weinstein, Arnold. “Fiction as Greatness: The Case of Gatsby.” 

NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 19.1 (1985): 22-38. JSTOR. Web. 28 Oct. 2011 as Greatness

• The Guilder Lerman Institute of American History

 (Joshua Zeitz)

•   Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrmann, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton take Xan Brooks behind the scenes of their hotly-anticipated adaptation of The Great Gatsby and reveal what the book means to them, why Luhrmann thinks his interpretation remains true to its spirit, and why Gatsby is Hamlet for the jazz age

 

   Flapper on the cover of Puck
    magazine, 1916. (Library of Congress
Print and Photographs Division