SOURCE: Berman, Ronald. “Contexts.” In The Great Gatsby and Modern Times, pp. 15-37. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
In the following essay, Berman discusses ideas current in America in the early part of the decade just before Gatsby's publication.
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