The Great Gatsby (Penguin Critical Studies Guide) | 
| Author: Kathleen Parkinson
Publisher: Penguin Global
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 11703
Media: Paperback
Edition: Stg
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0140771972
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780140771978
ASIN: 0140771972
Publication Date: November 25, 2003
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Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American dream.
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 dreams May 29, 2002
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is about knowing that some dreams are too far from reach, yet we still always try to attain them. Like Gatsby, we are taunted by how close we can come to that dream, but in the end, we realize that our efforts are fruitless. Each of us have our own Daisy -- each person did during the 20's, each person does now, each person will in the future -- The Great Gatsby is a classic. Fitzgerald does a fantastic job depicting a timeless theme that people of all time periods have experienced.
 Falls Flat May 17, 2002
3 out of 27 found this review helpful
I don't know if its just me, but I did not like this book too much. It feels empty- missing something almost. Perhaps it is Nick. He seems to be without a personality. He's just there. The story might as well be told in third person for crying out loud. I like protagonists with personality. Also, the author is quite sexist and racist and that is unacceptable. pI did give it two stars becuase to the author's credit, it was a tidy little book and not a sprawing mess. But then, it was too tidy and neat. After finishing it, I thought, "so what?" It did not particularly dazzle me and enlighten me, and I was not entertained. It is, all in all, a hollow book.
the best i read May 2, 2002
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
i know i probabnly didnt read alot but i was assgiened this book. its complexity is so thrilling. i truly recommmend it!brits something that each of us has to ponder about ourselves becuz truly...brwe are what we crate ourselves.brif u read this book ull know what im talking about.
Gatsby will hit you when you are least expecting March 26, 2002
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
deep and insightful, full of intellegent analogies and representations. i read Gatsby the begining of my junior year in high school and-didnt really like it. i wrote papers on it, and dissected the ...poor novel. now-months later-it finally hits me: Gatsby is a book to be read and enjoyed! not dissected and torn appart. all the quotes and passages that i liked so much came rushing back to me... i understood what fitz may have been writing about! i though and though and thought about Gatsby and realized that i did not just Like the book-i [really] LOVED IT!
 3 and a half stars actually March 22, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The novel is beautiful written. I have one problem is with the theme: money doesn't buy. I don't disagree with that statement, it is just king of obvious. I mean it is not exactly an epiphaney.
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