Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

Book Review| January 01 2008 History in Literature: The Story Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" History in Literature: The Story Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"Hensley, Laura J. PENNY RUDGE PENNY RUDGE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2008) 6 (1): 193–194. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583144 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation PENNY RUDGE; History in Literature: The Story Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2008; 6 (1): 193–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583144 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2008 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2008The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2009 "The Great Gatsby" and the Arrow Collar Man THOMAS DILWORTH THOMAS DILWORTH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2009) 7 (1): 80–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation THOMAS DILWORTH; "The Great Gatsby" and the Arrow Collar Man. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2009; 7 (1): 80–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583011 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2009 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2009The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2008 The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club" SUZANNE DEL GIZZO SUZANNE DEL GIZZO Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2008) 6 (1): 69–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation SUZANNE DEL GIZZO; The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2008; 6 (1): 69–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583129 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2008 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2008The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2010 Reading "The Great Gatsby" in New Jersey: Responses to Fitzgerald in Richard Ford's Bascombe Trilogy: "The Sportswriter (1986), Independence Day (1995)", and "The Lay of the Land (2006)" HORST KRUSE HORST KRUSE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2010) 8 (1): 208–217. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583162 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation HORST KRUSE; Reading "The Great Gatsby" in New Jersey: Responses to Fitzgerald in Richard Ford's Bascombe Trilogy: "The Sportswriter (1986), Independence Day (1995)", and "The Lay of the Land (2006)". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2010; 8 (1): 208–217. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583162 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2010 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2010The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2008 Anti-Petronian Elements in "The Great Gatsby" R. SKLENAR R. SKLENAR Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2008) 6 (1): 121–128. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation R. SKLENAR; Anti-Petronian Elements in "The Great Gatsby". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2008; 6 (1): 121–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583132 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2008 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2008The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| January 01 2010 The Telephonic Logic of "The Great Gatsby" ERIC RAWSON ERIC RAWSON Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2010) 8 (1): 92–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ERIC RAWSON; The Telephonic Logic of "The Great Gatsby". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2010; 8 (1): 92–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583157 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2010 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2010The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| January 01 2010 The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation The Great Gatsby: A Graphic AdaptationFitzgerald, F. Scott; Greenberg, Nicki DANIEL WORDEN DANIEL WORDEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2010) 8 (1): 231–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583166 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation DANIEL WORDEN; The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2010; 8 (1): 231–237. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583166 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2010 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2010The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Gatsby:<i>The Cultural History of the Great American Novel</i><i>Beyond</i>Gatsby:<i>How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture</i><i>So We Read On: How</i>The Great Gatsby<i>Came to Be and Why It Endures</i>

Gatsby: <i>The Cultural History of the Great American Novel</i> <i>Beyond</i> Gatsby: <i>How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture</i> <i>So We Read On: How</i> The Great Gatsby <i>Came to Be and Why It Endures</i>

Book Review| January 01 2010 The Great Gatsby The Great GatsbyWebre, Septime; Novick, Billy; Kennedy, John F. JOSEPH FRUSCIONE JOSEPH FRUSCIONE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2010) 8 (1): 238–241. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583167 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation JOSEPH FRUSCIONE; The Great Gatsby. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2010; 8 (1): 238–241. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583167 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2010 The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc.2010The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society/Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

To help keep this bibliography up to date, please send notices and citations to jma22@psu.edu or to Jeanne M. Alexander, F. Scott Fitzgerald Edition, Department of English, 430 Burrowes Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.Simon, Scott. “Opinion: ‘The Great Gatsby’ Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts.” National Public Radio, Weekend Edition 2 Jan. 2021 [2:39]. Opinion: ‘The Great Gatsby’ Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts: NPR.

B A R R Y G R O S S Michigan State University Back West: Time and Place in The Great Gatsby “I see now,” says Nick Carraway, “that this has been the story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all W esterners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” W hatever can he mean? If by “Eastern life” Nick means moral indifference, chaos and corruption, dishonesty and decadence, the Buchanans and Jordan Baker are right at home. True, Gatsby is sufficiently removed from Eastern life to keep his dream “in­ corruptible,” but he does exploit and function in it. Nick is the only really unsuccessful tran sp lan t though even he has his moments of adaptability. Nick’s statement has provided incontrovertible evidence for those who interpret The Great Gatsby as a “tragic pastoral.” Accord­ ing to this interpretation, Fitzgerald posits a corrupt, materialistic East against a simpler and, hence, morally superior West. But Tom ’s Lake Forest, Daisy and Jordan’s Louisville, Nick’s St. Paul are hardly frontier towns and certainly not pastoral. Nor do their products manifest a moral superiority to the Easterners with whom they come in contact. Nick explicitly denies that the wheat and the prairies constitute his Middle West. Jimmy Gatz is raised on a North Dakota farm but he leaves it. Indeed, the novel’s only rural W esterner is Henry C. Gatz and it would seem that if Fitz­ gerald wanted to suggest the West’s moral superiority he would have invested it in him. But Henry C. Gatz is just a sad old man as dazzled by the splendors of the East as his son ever was; he is gifted with no special insight or moral sensitivity. Fitzgerald wrote Maxwell Perkins on June 1, 1925, two months after Gatsby was published: As a matter of fact the American peasant as “real” material scarcely exists. He is scarcely 10% of the population, isn’t bound to the soil at all as the English and Russian peasants were — and, if he has any sensitivity whatsoever . . . , he is in the towns before he’s twenty. Either Lewis, Lardner and myself have been badly fooled, or else using him as typical American material is simply a stubborn seeking 4 Western A merican Literature for the static in a world that for almost a hundred years had simply not been static. It would seem that literary critics, at least those who subscribe to the “tragic pastoral” thesis, are not immune to the desire to repeat the past. The statement could be dismissed if Nick had made it earlier in the novel'as just another example of his faulty perception, along with his assumption that the squalor of Wilson’s garage cannot be all there is but “must be a blind” for “sumptuous and romantic apartm ents . . . overhead” and his guess that Gatsby bought his house across from Daisy’s by “a strange coincidence.” But Nick declares this the story of the West now, now that he has been educated, now that he has learned to look behind the pink suits and the frantic parties and the unbelievable house, now that he has perceived that the essential Gatsby is “worth the whole dam n bunch put together.” We must take the statement seriously. The statem ent makes sense to me — and, more im portant, illuminates the novel for me — if I regard East and West in The Great Gatsby not so much as places but as times, not so much as geographic locales but as states of mind — and at a specific historical mom ent in the history of the American imagination, that m om ent when the country suddenly reverses itself, turns in on itself, when manifest destiny makes an about-face, as if a cultural hourglass were suddenly tipped over and the grains of sand pursued a new course as irresistibly as they had pursued the old one. If this were a nineteenth century novel, if the author were a W hitman or Thoreau, West would be the geographical and psychological direction of the future, East...

Donald M. Kartinganer. The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1979.206 + xviii pp. Robert Emmet Long. The Achieving of "The Great Gatsby ": F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-1925. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1979.226 pp. Bernard Oldsey. Hemingway's Hidden Craft: The Writing of "A Farewell to Arms. " University Park and London : The Pennsyl- vania State University Press, 1979. 123 + x pp. Linda W. Wagner. Dos Passos: Artist as American. Austin and London : University of Texas Press, 1979. 220 + xxiv pp. Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Faulkner: The Trans- figuration of Biography, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. 264 + viii pp. Other than the fact that they all deal with important American novelists who began to produce during the first half of the 1920s, the five books under examination here have little in common. Even though they were committed to certain common modernist themes, the subjects of these books have attained individualities in the current consciousness, each identified with peculiar, if shifting, subject matter and characteristic form and style. It will no longer do, if it ever did, to refer to these four merely as writers of the twenties: Faulkner reached his peak during the thirties; re-evaluation of Fitzgerald's post-Jazz Age work dispels the myth that he was a one-decade man; Hemingway and Dos Passos produced significant novels well after the Crash. And as for the five critiques themselves, each takes its own stance, focusing on a larger or lesser portion of its subject's work and adopting a unique perspective on it.

THE PASTORAL PESSIMISM OF WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Jan Bakker Utah State University In the novels of William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, and in other significant antebellum Southern romances, there is a form within a form. Pastoral is put to use within the framework of romance to provide a subtle commentary upon local, national, and personal experience in such a way as to transform the seeming superficiality of pre-Civil War Southern romantic fiction into something much more meaningful than most readers and critics have recognized. In Simms' pastoral design there is both an acute social commentary and a nagging awareness of the essential tragedy of the American experience. In his romances and certain of his letters and essays, Simms reveals an admiration for "Doing" (as he calls action, change, and progress) as well as a love for the ancient pastoral dream of sequestered green-garden repose and human rejuvenation—this time in an idyllic, agrarian Southland. In this pastoral irresolution appear Simms' deep pessimism and dismay. These result from his ultimate conviction that the restless antipastoral Doer, the intruder into the American plantation garden, will corrupt and spoil any earthly paradise. Woven through the pastoral design of Simms' adventure stories is a Southern version of the American theme formulated beautifully in the familiar Hudson River recollection that closes F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as Henry Hudson's men look with awe and wonder away from the Half-Moon and out into the passing green and doomed splendor of the New World. In the tradition of modern "inverted" pastoral, which Renato Poggioli describes in The Oaten Flute, Simms' alternately bucolic and blighted landscapes evoke idyll only to deny it. Pastoral weaves a subtle, pessimistic pattern in his fiction that looks toward what CL. Sanford in The Quest for Paradise calls the main theme in American literature of the twentieth century, the dispossession from Paradise.1 Simms' writing shows an unreconciled admiration for both "Northern" industrial action and progress and a yearning for "Southern" agrarian-pastoral repose that reveal a crucial split in his notion of what was best for the nation and his region. This is a dichotomy that points to the New South creed of development and industrialization advocated by Henry Woodfin Grady in the postReconstruction era. It is a dichotomy that turns then toward a quiet 82Notes idyllic vision of the South as a self-contained farming community posited by the Twelve Southerners who contributed essays to ITl Take My Stand in 1930.2 Evidence of this dichotomy—and of Simms' essential and hopeless pastoral bias—occurs in all of his romances. Brief scenes of static, idyllic peace are juxtaposed to larger scenes of action gone strangely awry. This is the heart of his pastoral pessimism. In a pause in the Revolutionary War in The Partisan (1835), for example, Simms describes Swamp Fox Marion's hard-riding dragoons resting near a cool and tranquil roadside spring. Unexpectedly, Simms intrudes his authorial sad voice to muse that man invariably will reject the harmonies of "the bird and the flower" so bent is he "upon earthly strife," as symbolized by war. Yet in The Forayers (1855), Captain Porgy, Simms' comic relief and frequent philosophical spokesman, states in apparent contradiction to the green stasis, the sunlit changelessness of the pastoral ideal, "it is stagnation that is death."3 Guy Rivers, the educated Georgia bandit leader, certainly exemplifies man's destructive preference for strife in the garden. He is one of Simms' many memorable characters, and his criminal spirit dominates the novel Guy Rivers (1834), which is set in the rugged, dangerous north Georgia goldfields of the early nineteenth century. Guy is the first Faust figure to occur in the Southern novel, for Simms describes him as a man who has "that ambition of one who discovers at every step that nothing can be known, yet will not give up the unprofitable pursuit, because even while making the discovery, he still hopes vainly that he may yet, in his own person, give the maxim the lie . . . for ever battling and for ever lost."4In his nihilistic striving for knowledge in his dark forest cave, with his ferocious robberies and murders...

Book Review| September 01 2017 Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication. By Mari Lee Mifsud. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2016; pp. xi + 186. $25.00 paper. Michele Kennerly Michele Kennerly Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 557–560. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michele Kennerly; Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 557–560. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0557 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.