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      Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"

      by Kathleen Parkinson
      Published
      Feb 1987
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      144
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      Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery, and use of color, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women, and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American dream.

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      First Edition Feb 1987 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140771275 ISBN10 0140771271
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