The Great Gatsby: need help?

[ggtechproject]

My english class and I have just finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is a great american classic which I would like to share with others. I have created this forum as a way to help others understand The Great Gatsby. If you have anything you want to ask, ask and i will try to help you with your question. If i do not know the answer, then I will try to find out for you. Feel free to add anything you would like to this forum.

 

[GreenKnight]

Gatsby the ancestor of Ripley?

It's funny, when I read The Talented Mr Ripley for the first time, I was reminded of The Great Gatsby. I think Gatsby may have provided the model or archetype for a host of similar heroes/antiheroes. I found striking similarities between the ways the two men built up a surface patina of a personality or character but just had this howling void under the surface, a gap where there ought to be a real person. Might make a good essay one of these days - compare and contrast Gatsby and Ripley!

Another interesting character I think is the actually narrator of TGG. Nick whatsisname. We find out very little about him, in some ways he's even more enigmatic than Gatsby. Some have suggested that he is the one ultimately responsible for 'mythologising' Jay Gatsby, and thus somehow to blame in the whole tragedy. I don't know the full argument that backs that up, but it's an interesting source of critique and discussion.

 

[novella]

Link to previous discussion

Though I sort of hate to do this because I'm not sure anyone actually reads these links, there's some good discussion of Gatsby here:




http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=3937&highlight=Gatsby

I'm up for further discussion, but I don't want to repost what I've said already.

 

[Stewart]

This is a great american classic which I would like to share with others.

Thanks for the offer but I've already got a copy.