Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the ...

"The idea that we're the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until ...

Both stories deal, in some way, with class differences and social immobility. To nudge the kids along, Hannon shows them a chart known as "The Great Gatsby Curve." It comes from a report prepared ...

Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring ... modern yearning and class consciousness. And its clear-eyed assessment of the attainability of the American dream ...

The Great Gatsby is our clearest literary exploration of class. Fitzgerald’s mythic geography—from old-money East Egg to aspirational West Egg, past the Valley of Ashes—invites us to trace ...

In 1925, the year F. Scott Fitzgerald published his magnum opus The Great Gatsby in the United States, across the ocean, in Germany, writer Thea von Harbou turned expressionist filmmaker Fritz Lang’s ...