Tag Archives: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Super Rich: Great Gatsby Redux

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2014

Many of today’s billionaires are as paranoid as Tom Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”

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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2013

To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.

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High Bouncing Lover, I Must Have You

By Robin Bates | Published: August 13, 2013

Fitzgerald’s epigraph to “Great Gatsby” challenges us to live life to the fullest.

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To Know Gatsby Is to Know America

By Robin Bates | Published: May 16, 2013

“The Great Gatsby” is about fantasizing. Baz Luhrmann’s new film appears to understand this well.

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Lit Titles as Cocktails (“The Wasteland”)

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2012

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

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2012

Fitzgerald’s insights into the rich help us understand Mitt Romney (and John F. Kennedy also).

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2012 Election Mirrors Great Gatsby

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2012

The Romney weekend fundraising event in the Hamptons uncomfortably mirrors the parties that occur in the Hamptons in “The Great Gatsby.”

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Gatsby in Iran: A Dream Betrayed

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2009

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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