Critical Studies

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23302127827
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Books
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5.99
book_author_name: 
Kathleen Parkinson
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Penguin Books Ltd
published_date: 
27/10/1988
isbn: 
9780140771978
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Literature: history & criticism > Fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Kathleen Parkinson|Paperback|Penguin Books Ltd|27/10/1988
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9780140771978
Book Description: 
Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American dream.

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