The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Resources

The Great Gatsby For Further Study

Harold Bloom, editor, F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby': Modern Critical Interpretations, Chelsea House, 1986.

This book contains eight articles with an introduction' on the novel's structure, Gatsby as an "American" novel, and the wasteland, and includes the article by David Parker, "Two Versions of the Hero "

Harold Bloom, editor, Gatsby, Major Literary Characters Series, Chelsea House, 1991.

This comprehensive collection of articles focusing on the novel's "hero," Gatsby, begins with 25 critical extracts on the character and the author from letters, reviews, and articles of particular interest is the article by Arnold Weinstein, "Fiction as Greatness. The Case of Gatsby" (1985) which reads the novel as being about making meaning, or creating belief, Tills includes both Gatsby's fiction of himself and Nick's story of this The collection also includes an important early article on the time theme by R W Stallman, "Gatsby...
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