The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization
Explore characters and characterisation in The Great Gatsby: Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Tom, social masks, desire, class, and Fitzgerald’s irony.
Explore characters and characterisation in The Great Gatsby: Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Tom, social masks, desire, class, and Fitzgerald’s irony.
The term quest calls up the fairy tale motif or the German Märchen (Tieck; Grimm), which has been studied by Propp in Morphology of the Folktale.
America in the Great Gatsby is a fundamental notion and the novel cannot be studied without the historical context of the time.
Both the novel and the American society correspond to the beginning of a modern era. America is a direct consequence of the age of reason (18th century).
Explore American literature through its major periods, authors, works and themes, from Puritan writing to Gatsby, modernism and American drama.