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Poetry-Jonathan Roberts  \nConrad's Heart of Darkness-Allan Simmons  \nDickens's Great Expectations-Ian Brinton  \nSylvia Plath's Poetry-Linda Wagner-Martin  \nFITZGERALD’STHE GREAT GATSBY  \nA Reader's GuideNICOLAS TREDELL  \nFirst published 2007Reprinted 2007,2009,2011  \nC Nicolas Tredell 2007  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced ortransmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,recording,or any information storage orretrieval system,without prior permission in writing from thepublishers.  \nNicolas Tredell has asserted his right under the Copyright,Designsand Patents Act,1988,to be identified as Author of this work.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.EISBN 9780826490117  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library ofCongress.  \nTypeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd,Manchester  \nCONTENTS  \n1 Contexts  \n1  \n2 Language,Style and Form173 Reading The Great Gatsby334 Critical Reception and Publishing History775 Adaptation,Interpretation and Influence936 Guide to Further Reading111  \nIndex  \n129  \nNOTE  \nGatsby page references are to the 2000 Penguin Classicspaperback.  \nCrack-Up references are to the 1962 New Directions paperback.  \nDefinitions are from the 11th edition of the Concise OxfordEnglish Dictionary,unless otherwise stated.  \n# CHAPTER1\n\nCONTEXTS  \nFITZGERALD'S LIFE  \nScott Fitzgerald was a legend in his own lifetime and has becomeeven more so since his death.He seems toepitomize an Americanera-the 'Jazz Age'of the 1920s-and to symbolize its delights,dangers and defeats.His spectacular early success as a writer,hisfrantic pursuit of pleasure,his fraught relationship with his wifeZelda,and his decline into alcoholism,obscurity and prematuredeath represents the trajectory of a generation.While his fictionis never simply autobiographical,his life and work are intricatelyinterwoven and he created,in The Great Gatsby,one of the mostpervasive and appealing of modern American myths.  \nFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St Paul,Minnesota,on 24 September 1896;his forenames were taken from his great-great-uncle,Francis Scott Key(1779-1843),who,in 1814,hadwritten the song that would eventually be adopted as theAmerican national anthem in 1931,'The Star-Spangled Banner'.Fitzgerald's birth was haunted by death:three months earlier,two of his infant sisters had died.In ‘Author's House'(1936),heidentifies this loss as the point at which he started to be a writer.Another sister,born in 1900,lived just an hour;his only surviv-ing sibling,Annabel,arrived in 1901.  \nThe dominant theme of his boyhood,which would also figurestrongly in his fiction,was social insecurity.He later wrote thathe 'developed a two-cylinder inferiority complex'because of thedivision between the dual strands of his family background:an  \nFITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY  \nIrish strand with the money,and an old American strand with'the usual exaggerated ancestral pretensions'and the ‘series ofreticences and obligations that go under the poor old shatteredword “breeding”.The disparity between money and 'breeding'would be one of the key concerns of Gatsby.  \nFitzgerald's sense of inferiority was increased by his father'sdownward mobility.When the novelist was born,EdwardFitzgerald owned a furniture factory,the American Rattan andWillow Works;but this failed less than two years later,in April1898,and forced him to take a job as a wholesale grocery sales-man with Proctor and Gamble in Buffalo,New York State.Thenin July 1908,when Fitzgerald was 11,his father,then aged 55,losthis job;his son later saw this a decisive blow:\"That morning hehad gone out a comparatively young man,a man full of stre","cbCaipqPKMKvKZXT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipqPKMKvKZXT","pdf",6999239,143,"English","# Contexts\n## Fitzgerald's 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