Secondary Sources American Literature
The Great Gatsby:
Bicknell - whose writing transcended the narrow concerns of one particular place and time
Callahan - Gatsby's attempt to recapture that time is part of a cultural desire for a lost
innocence
Fitzgerald - the most beautiful history in all the world... the history of all aspiration - not just
the American dream but the human dream
J.T Adams- a dream of being able to grow to fullest development... unrepressed by social
orders
K Parkinson - [MATERIALISM] here is a new but false God
K Parkinson - Daisy's voice pays tribute to her sexual allure
K Parkinson - Swirling hedonistic crowd who come to Gatsby's house, swimming with the
social tide, unconcerned about the sources of Gatsby's wealth
Lodge - is indeed to reveal in an interesting way the gap between appearance and reality, and
to show how human beings distort or conceal the latter
Matterson - an examination of American myth
Mencken - glorified anecdote... does not go below the surface
Prigozy - a world of money and success rather than social responsibility
Prigozy - about men who need money, in love with women inaccessible without it... the
social order is against them
Prigozy - Gatsby's house is a showcase of corruption
Prigozy - seems to speak directly to its current audience about love and existential freedom
R Lehan - Chapter 5, the reunion scene, is the static centre of the novel. Here time past and
present fuse; the dream comes as close to incarnation as it is possible for it to come
R Lehan - Fitzgerald's myth seems to be about the decadence of American values
R Lehan - From his mid-twenties on, Fitzgerald's life was controlled by liquor... the man who
came to understand the tragedy of waste had to waste his own genius to come by such an
understanding
R Lehan - Gatsby models himself on Dan Cody when the frontiersman is now a relic of an
exhausted past... Gatsby is unable to reconcile with the heightened and genteel world of the
East
The Great Gatsby:
Bicknell - whose writing transcended the narrow concerns of one particular place and time
Callahan - Gatsby's attempt to recapture that time is part of a cultural desire for a lost
innocence
Fitzgerald - the most beautiful history in all the world... the history of all aspiration - not just
the American dream but the human dream
J.T Adams- a dream of being able to grow to fullest development... unrepressed by social
orders
K Parkinson - [MATERIALISM] here is a new but false God
K Parkinson - Daisy's voice pays tribute to her sexual allure
K Parkinson - Swirling hedonistic crowd who come to Gatsby's house, swimming with the
social tide, unconcerned about the sources of Gatsby's wealth
Lodge - is indeed to reveal in an interesting way the gap between appearance and reality, and
to show how human beings distort or conceal the latter
Matterson - an examination of American myth
Mencken - glorified anecdote... does not go below the surface
Prigozy - a world of money and success rather than social responsibility
Prigozy - about men who need money, in love with women inaccessible without it... the
social order is against them
Prigozy - Gatsby's house is a showcase of corruption
Prigozy - seems to speak directly to its current audience about love and existential freedom
R Lehan - Chapter 5, the reunion scene, is the static centre of the novel. Here time past and
present fuse; the dream comes as close to incarnation as it is possible for it to come
R Lehan - Fitzgerald's myth seems to be about the decadence of American values
R Lehan - From his mid-twenties on, Fitzgerald's life was controlled by liquor... the man who
came to understand the tragedy of waste had to waste his own genius to come by such an
understanding
R Lehan - Gatsby models himself on Dan Cody when the frontiersman is now a relic of an
exhausted past... Gatsby is unable to reconcile with the heightened and genteel world of the
East
