Connell Guide to F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby Sutherland John
Connell Guide to F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby Sutherland John When The Great Gatsby was first published, in 1925, reviews were mixed. H.L. Hartley, author of The Go-Between, thought…
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When The Great Gatsby was first published, in 1925, reviews were mixed. H.L. Hartley, author of The Go-Between, thought Fitzgerald deserved "a good shaking" "The Great Gatsby is evidently not a satire; but one would like to think that Mr Fitzgerald's heart is not in it, that it is a piece of mere naughtiness." Yet, gradually the book came to be seen as one of the greatest - if not the greatest - of American novels. Why? Mencken called it "no more than a glorified anecdote". L.P.
Why has a novel so intimately rooted in its own time "lasted" into ours? What is it that makes this story of a petty hoodlum so compelling? What is it that posterity, eight decades later, finds so fascinating in this chronicle of the long-gone "Jazz Age", flappers, speakeasies and wild parties?
It is, after all, scarcely a novel at all, more a long short story. But it has a power out of all proportion to its