Your place for all things Gatsby. Also probably the best place to post any thoughts on the book after we start the next novel. The Great Gatsby discussion: Chapters 1 — 3 The Great Gatsby discussion: Chapters 4 — 6 The Great Gatsby discussion: Chapters 7 — 9 The Great Gatsby: overall impression The Great […]

I wanted to have a thread on what other’s think about The Great Gatsby because I feel I’m probably in the minority. I enjoyed the language of the book—deceptively simple but rich all the same. But there was something that kept nagging at me, keeping me from fully enjoying it. I’ll try and condense my […]

This post is to cover the last three chapters of The Great Gatsby. I’ll start another thread by Friday to post your thoughts on the book as a whole. We arrive at the culmination of the book with infidelities uncovered and murders committed. The author ties it all together as his commentary on the state […]

An excellent article titled Professor, private investigator team up in search of the real ‘Great Gatsby’, which gives a look at the man purportedly behind Fitzgerald’s title character. Some detail is given on Max von Gerlach, who Zelda Fitzgerald said was the inspiration for Jay Gatsby. However this excerpt highlights the uncertainty of that claim: […]

In the middle third of the book, we hear Gatsby’s story of himself, meet Meyer Wolfshiem, find out some back-story on Jay and Daisy from Jordan, witness Jay and Daisy’s reunion, tour Gatsby’s house, find out more facts about Gatsby, and attend a disappointing party at his house. As Fitzgerald said in a different story, […]

A good article at the International Herald Tribune site (link is down) that ties in the history of Long Island and Fitzgerald. In “Gatsby,” Fitzgerald’s narrator and stand-in, Nick Carraway, says, “It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.” But West Egg […]

What do you say about The Great Gatsby that hasn’t been said a thousand times already? Still, here I am posting on the book. I had never read the book, so I’m coming to it fresh instead of having a teacher tell me what I’m supposed to see in it. I’m interested to see if […]

Since I’ve been traveling I haven’t had much of a chance to research resources for The Great Gatsby. At first glance, there is a lot available, but I’m not sure how good many of them are. I’ll pass along a few I’ve had a chance to visit. Please add anything you found and liked in […]

Join us in reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The copy I have is around 180 pages, so I’ll divide it up into sections of about 60 pages for each week. I’ll go with the tentative schedule below for now and see if it needs revision. August 30: Chapters 1 – 3September 6: […]