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Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1


In which John Green discusses the first chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, including thoughts on the role that the ideas of the self-made man and the American dream fuel the beginning of the novel. Themes, metaphors, and symbols are all discussed--although hopefully not in that boring and unlikable way you all find so reprehensible.

Discuss the book! http://yourpants.org/threads/9896-The-Official-Thread-for-Discussin......

In the first chapter, our narrator Nick Carraway introduces us briefly to Gatsby before taking us to an awful dinner with the unhappily married Buchanans, Tom and Daisey, who live in great wealth and misery on East Egg.

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Comment by Danielle Leigh on July 29, 2011 at 4:28pm
Is it just my overtired imagination, or is this video over 4 minutes long?
Comment by Psychonautslog on July 20, 2011 at 11:13am
A great book by a great writer!

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