Many of today’s billionaires are as paranoid as Tom Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”
Tag Archives: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Super Rich: Great Gatsby Redux
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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
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To Know Gatsby Is to Know America
“The Great Gatsby” is about fantasizing. Baz Luhrmann’s new film appears to understand this well.
Lit Titles as Cocktails (“The Wasteland”)
NPR’s Studio 360 sponsored a “literary cocktail” contest. We share here some of the highlights.
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The Rich Are Different from You and Me
Fitzgerald’s insights into the rich help us understand Mitt Romney (and John F. Kennedy also).
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Gatsby in Iran: A Dream Betrayed
The Iranian authorities allowed Nafisi to teach “The Great Gatsby” because they regarded it as an expose of American materialism and decadence. And certainly it has that dimension. But Nafisi focused more on how the work explores the betrayal of dreams. Both countries have experience with that betrayal.
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