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)"

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 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 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 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.

Book Review| January 01 2009 Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"Bryer, Jackson R.; VanArsdale, Nancy P. LAUREN A. RULE LAUREN A. RULE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2009) 7 (1): 155–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/41583016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation LAUREN A. RULE; Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2009; 7 (1): 155–158. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41583016 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.

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.

I. Richard Anderson's essay Gatsby's Long Shadow: Influence and Endurance includes an extensive list of novels and stories which pay homage to the impress of The Great Gatsby (36). The presence of Gatsby in these works ranges from insistent tribute and recognition of Fitzgerald's magnitude of achievement all the way to casually . . . allusive comparison (14). Additions to the list over the past two decades have continued to fall within this range. But the most prominent instance of an account of the reception of The Great Gatsby occurs in a work that does not come under the heading of fiction at all: in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003). Subtitled A Memoir in Books, the work sets out to detail, along with other contentions of similar nature, a violent contest over the proper way of reading Fitzgerald's in revolutionary Iran. What Nafisi has to say about Nabokov's Lolita in the first section of her book also holds for Fitzgerald's in her second section: it is ultimately the story of how The Great Gatsby gave a different color to Tehran and how Tehran helped redefine [Fitzgerald's] novel (6). The prominent position of Nafisi's book among instances of the reception of The Great Gatsby is due to the obvious clash that exists between the world of fiction (that of the American Twenties) and the world of its readers (that of Revolutionary Iran), a clash of civilizations reflected in the distance in time as well as space between the two worlds.

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)"

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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.

134 MichiganHistoricalReview Middleton acknowledges thework produced by scholars examining Native-colonial relations from cultural perspectives. In particular, he employs Richard White's concept of the "middle ground," the social and cultural space previously established by French and Native leaders,within which neither dominated the other, and which was used for resolving disputes andmaintaining amicable relations.As Middleton observes, British commanders such as Amherst failed to appreciate such interactions. However, his references toNative groups fighting for their"freedom" seem to belie the complex nature of these cross-cultural relationships as revealed by academic studies such as White's. Middleton does not define what freedom would mean with respect toBritish-Native relations.He implies it could have been achieved with the removal of theBritish from theNorth American interior,but he needs to define more clearly how the British "subjugated" Native groups with settlements negotiated in 1764 and 1765. As this is a work primarily devoted to military and diplomatic history, however, amuch greater flaw is its lack ofmaps. The book has one map that faces the tide page. But given the sheer number of places, Native Peoples, and eventsMiddleton addresses in the text,one map is far from adequate. Nonetheless, Pontiac'sWar provides an excellent narrative account of its topic. Anyone interested in the events that engulfed or challenged Native Peoples of the Great Lakes or Ohio Valley regions during the 1760s should familiarize themselves with Middleton's work. Matthew S.Muehlbauer Austin Peay State University Mary Lou Nemanic. One Day for Democracy: IndependenceDay and the Americanization ofIron Range Immigrants.Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. 252. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Mary Lou Nemanic examines the social and cultural history of the northern Minnesota Iron Range by focusing on how its inhabitants celebrated Independence Day. She argues that the first- and second-generation immigrants who lived there used the holiday to form "an alternative Americanism," one that expressed "the needs and values of ethnic groups whose members shared identities as both workers and new Americans" (p. 2). Nemanic begins by explaining how Independence Day developed nationally as a holiday and how it shifted from one of carnivalesque rituals that inverted the social order to one that focused on conformity and Book Reviews135 stability.Celebrations in the Iron Range, however, were slower inmaking this shift,which Nemanic explains by pointing to the region's ethnic diversity, class tensions, and harsh physical environment. The cold and isolation of northern Minnesota forced theWelsh, Irish, Italian, Slavic, and other immigrants to pull together to survive,which in turn thwarted efforts by themining companies to divide workers based on ethnicity. Independence Day celebrations became vehicles for theworking-class inhabitants of the Iron Range to protest the abuses of the mine companies aswell as a day to create theirown brand ofAmerican identity. Thus, counter to thenational trend, Iron Range workers and their families continued to embrace the radical strainof Independence Day celebrations well into the twentieth century, seeing it as "a day for freedom of expression" (p. 95). They observed the holiday with rowdy parades, as well as by drinking, cross-dressing, and ridiculing theirbosses. In the last chapters of this book, Nemanic explores how changes of the mid-twentieth century, such as the emergence ofmass media, the creation of the "New Deal," andWorld War II pushed the people of the Iron Range to adopt more of the dominant national culture,which dampened but did not end the radical nature of their Independence Day celebrations. At times, Nemanic is repetitive, circling back and discussing points shemade earlier. In other places, she brings up tantalizing issues but does not fully develop them. This is particularly true in the last part of the book, where she discusses how the Independence Day celebrations were revived in the Iron Range as a way to bolster tourism in the region but does not fully contextualize this change. Overall, though, One Day for Democracy succeeds in using a national holiday as a window into the regional distinctiveness of the Iron Range. Jeanne Petit Hope College Susan Stein-Roggenbuck. Negotiating Relief:The Development ofSocialWelfare Programs in Depression-EraMichigan, 1930-1940. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2008. Pp. 252. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index...

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...