Critical Studies

The Great Gatsby

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: Kathleen Parkinson ISBN: 9780141932200
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: October 27, 1988
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Kathleen Parkinson
ISBN: 9780141932200
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: October 27, 1988
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

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 colour, 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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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 colour, 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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