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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby Quotes
2,450 words, approx. 8 pages
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short novel which takes place on Long Island during the Jazz Age and is commonly cited as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. Contents 1 Chapter 1 2 Chapter 2 3 Chapter 3 4 Chapter 4 5...


Author Biography

Name: F . Scott Fitzgerald
Birth Date: September 24, 1896
Death Date: March 10, 1948
Place of Birth: St. Paul, Minnesota
Place of Death: Hollywood, California
Gender: Male

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Biography of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
1308 words, approx. 4.4 pages
The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic analog to his romantic art. On Sept. 24, 1896, F. Scot...
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Biography of F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
12405 words, approx. 41.4 pages
Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 short stories. These works not only provided the income tha...
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Biography of F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
12298 words, approx. 41 pages
An air of transience pervades the biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and slips into their writing. This lack of permanence is a key to understanding their relationship with Paris and France. Unlike such contemporary American wr...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1925 Summary
8,426 words, approx. 28 pages
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1925 Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) is the quintessential tale of the American dream: the heights a man may reach, the past he can discard, the joy he may (or may...
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The Great Gatsby Summary
3,850 words, approx. 13 pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Francis Scott Fitzgerald eventually settled in New York City. His writings frequently deal with the East Coast social circles and are best known for documenting the 1920s...
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The Great Gatsby Information
3,120 words, approx. 10 pages
The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time,...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Weighing The `great' In `gatsby'
03/27/2005: 868 words, approx. 3 pages
Please move up close to the page. I'm about to make a shocking revelation, and I'd like to keep it between us. Bear in mind that I make my living as a novelist, reviewer, and critic, and that as a teacher I'm known...
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The Washington Post
Nothing Great About This 'Gatsby'
01/13/2001: 761 words, approx. 3 pages
Why do they keep trying? You have to assume it's arrogance, that each set of moviemakers thinks it can somehow succeed where others have failed to make a good movie of "The Great Gatsby." A fourth attempt, starring Mira Sorvino as Daisy and Toby...
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AP News
Star tenor Jerry Hadley on life support
7/12/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized Thursday for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted.Hadley created the title role in composer John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the lead in Paul McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio." Leonard Bernstein chose him to...
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Opera singer Jerry Hadley dead at 55
7/18/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
Jerry Hadley, the world-class tenor known for his agile and lyric voice, died Wednesday, a week after he shot himself in an apparent suicide attempt.The 55-year-old singer died two days after doctors at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie took him off life support, said family...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Bert Bender
9,924 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Bender discusses the influence of theories of evolutionary biology—including eugenics, ideas of accident and heredity, and Darwin's notions of sexual selection—on Gatsby and other Fitzgerald works.
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Critical Essay by Mitchell Breitwieser
9,526 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Breitwieser explores ways in which Fitzgerald used the phrases “the Jazz Age” and “The Last Tycoon” to define epochs in American literary history, prefiguring the discipline which would become American studies.
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Critical Essay by John F. Callahan
9,429 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Callahan examines various manifestations of the idea of the American dream as it evolved in three Fitzgerald novels.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Great Gatsby: Analysis by Chapter
3,619 words, approx. 12 pages
Analyzes The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Provides a chapter summary and includes a selected quote from each chapter. Provides an analysis of major characters.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Comparison of the Ways in Which Fitzgerald and Bronte Present Their Heroes. (2742 Words)
2,700 words, approx. 9 pages
In both "Wuthering Heights" and "The Great Gatsby", the authors have put the central focus for the readers on the romantic heroes of the text. The romantic heroes in the two texts are Gatsby and Heathcliff. These two characters are both very similar and very different and the following is a comparison of how each of them is presented in the novels.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Is "The Great Gatsby" purely an éxpose of America in the 1920's?
2,545 words, approx. 9 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Deals with morality and the drinking culture in 1920's America.
 


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