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The Great Gatsby


The Great Gatsby belongs to what Harold Bloom tags the ?tomb? of literary archetypes, a family of fiction that espouses every facet of the expressive use of language (everything from Shakespeare?s plays to Dickens? prose). As a participant in this tomb, The Great Gatsby has adopted a convenient persona in the world of twentieth century literature as ?the great American novel,? a work that embodies the American thematic ideals of the self-made man, the great American character?Jay Gatsby.

In its infancy, the novel received only a taste of the ?epic grandeur? that it would later accumulate. Snubbed by certain critics for its all-too-perfect design and shrugged aside by the popular masses, The Great Gatsby was a feat of fiction that, in its time, never knew its fame.

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In the Spring of 1924, The Fitzgeralds left for France. There, F. Scott Fitzgerald hoped to indulge his literary appetite without distraction. He wrote The Great Gatsby during the summer and fall in Valescure near St. Raphael, hav... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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