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The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews from literary critics of the day. [142] Edwin Clark of The New York Times felt the novel was a mystical and glamorous tale of the Jazz Age. [143] Similarly, Lillian C. Ford of the Los Angeles Times hailed the novel as a revelatory work of art that "leaves the reader in a mood of chastened ...
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
The Great Gatsby. Smith first read The Great Gatsby as a high school student, but he did not fully understand it at the time. [2] In 2014, after living in Europe, Smith reread the novel for the first time in several years. [5] He came to identify with its narrator Nick Carraway and was drawn to Carraway's sense of detachment. [2]
Nick befriends the mysterious Gatsby ("Deathless Song"). Gatsby takes Nick to lunch, where Gatsby's business associate Meyer Wolfsheim tells Nick of Gatsby's rags-to-riches story ("Feels Like Hell"). Gatsby reveals that he would like to be reacquainted with Nick's cousin Daisy. Nick informs Jordan of this, admitting he is charmed by Gatsby ("A ...
When Nick and Jordan attend a party at Gatsby's home, Nick is invited for a private meeting with Gatsby, who asks him to lunch the following day. At lunch, Nick meets Gatsby's business partner, a Jewish gangster and gambler named Meyer Wolfsheim, who rigged the 1919 World Series. The following day, Jordan appears at Nick's work and requests he ...
Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy had been driving the car. He thinks Daisy will return to him and says he intends to take the fall. Nick leaves as Gatsby begins to take a swim. George arrives and shoots Gatsby and then himself ("For Her" (reprise)). Nick is the only friend at Gatsby's funeral as people gossip about his death ("New Money" (reprise)).
The Great Gatsby is a 1949 American historical romance drama film directed by Elliott Nugent, and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume. The film stars Alan Ladd , Betty Field , Macdonald Carey , Ruth Hussey , and Barry Sullivan , and features Shelley Winters and Howard Da Silva , the latter of whom ...
Literary scholars believe the mansion helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, [5] which describes the house of Jay Gatsby as A factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin bead of raw ivy, and marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of land.