Showing posts with label The Great Gatsby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Great Gatsby. Show all posts
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 10: In Conclusion
Just about any writing teacher will tell you to “Write what you know.” In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote what he knew: The excess and corruption of his time. It’s impossible to read Gatsby as something other than a cautionary tale. In short, Fitzgerald seems to say to his readers, “Do what I say, not what I did.”
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 9: Motifs
Whenever F. Scott Fitzgerald makes a point of the weather, pay attention. There’s more brewing than just a few storm clouds. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses storm clouds and high humidity to tell us what’s in store for his characters. In this story, needless to say, what’s in store is rarely good.
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 8: Symbol 2
Did the face of God make an appearance on a faded highway billboard, or was F. Scott Fitzgerald just drinking again? In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald steers clear of theology, but he does bring the supernatural into the picture in a curious way.
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 7: Symbol 1
F. Scott Fitzgerald was quite the moralist, for a party-hearty drunk that is. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows what happens when we “head down the wrong road.” Literally!
Here’s 60 seconds on what Fitzgerald thinks awaits us when we take a bad turn.
Here’s 60 seconds on what Fitzgerald thinks awaits us when we take a bad turn.
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 6: Themes
America is fueled by a dream. The dream of more. It’s the dream that drives the characters in The Great Gatsby—in Jay Gatsby’s case, to his grave. And there’s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s message for his readers: Dreams may be good, but corrupt dreams inevitably lead to bad ends.<
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 5: Meet the Cast
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald sets his stage with six characters and one powerful seductress. Got a minute to find out who that temptress might be?
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 4: The Plot
F. Scott Fitzgerald knew how to plot … and how to party. In The Great Gatsby, one of the great party boys of his day manage to fuse his love of literature and his fondness for alcohol into one wild ride. Give us 60 seconds and we’ll show you what we mean: Here’s The Great Gatsby’s plot, as seen through the social calendar of Gatsby’s narrator, Nick Carraway.
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 3: Protagonists
A novel is a story about someone. Someone who begins as one kind of person and, through the story, becomes another kind of person. In The Great Gatsby, that “someone” isn’t really a “someone.” It’s a decade, an era. The glittering 1920s. Those “roaring twenties” don’t exactly “change” through the course of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s harrowing tale. But they do look a lot uglier at the end of the story than they did at the beginning.
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 2: The Overview
With The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald set out to tell a story, not just about individual characters, but about the era in which they lived. When Gatsby was first published in 1925, America was caught up in visions of giddy prosperity. Those with the cash flaunted their wealth. Those without the cash fended for themselves. And everyone, whether rich or poor, was obsessed with the pursuit of more.
That, in a soundbite, is The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald created a novel about the pursuit of more—and the price we pay for what often turns out to be “fool’s gold.”
That, in a soundbite, is The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald created a novel about the pursuit of more—and the price we pay for what often turns out to be “fool’s gold.”
60 Second Recap | The Great Gatsby | 1: Teaser Trailer
Think The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is all about lawn parties and iced tea?
Give us 60 seconds. We’ll set you straight.
Give us 60 seconds. We’ll set you straight.
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The "I'm mad as hell" Finch moment may have won him the Oscar, but it is this scene that is the true show-stopper in Sidney Lumet's film. Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was about eight billion years ahead of his time.
Key moment: "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!"
The "I'm mad as hell" Finch moment may have won him the Oscar, but it is this scene that is the true show-stopper in Sidney Lumet's film. Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was about eight billion years ahead of his time.
Key moment: "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!"
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