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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux ...
The Oracle7h
Fireball turns back the clock to the Roaring Twenties
Every year, towards the end of the spring semester, the Hamline University Programming Board (HUPB) plans one of the biggest ...
Opinion
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Opinion: Jim Vacca: ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a reminder that wanting to return to the past is a trap
Jay Gatsby wanted to repeat the past, return to an idealized world of perfection with Daisy, hold on to a “first kiss” forever. It’s a trap. Trump wants to return America to an illusory Golden ...
Opinion
'The Great Gatsby': The Great American Novel turns 100. Why it is still great
Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer than 25,000 ...