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| F. Scott Fitzgerald has been hailed as the apostle of the
Jazz Age
and his most famous protagonist, Gatsby, as the embodiment of
the
perilous pursuit of the American Dream. In this study Peter
Davies
asks whether The Great Gatsby goes in fact beyond these specifically
American preoccupations to give us a powerful portrait of hope
springing eternal in the human heart. He also examines the way
in
which the narrator, Nick Carraway, himself a character in the
story,
offers us a constantly shifting moral perspective on the other
characters and their motives and actions as they touch Gatsby
himself. |
| Peter Davies is the author of William Blake,
The Brontës, Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare’s King Lear
and Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Greenwich Exchange Student
Guide Literary Series. |
| This series is available at a special price of £3.99
for schools only. |
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