Monday, January 5, 2026

The Great Gatsby

 

The Great Gatsby


Novel to film: 





Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.

Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
 “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).

“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).

”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).

Article from class today on the green light:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1

and one on the American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1

This article is about Jay Gatsby as a dreamer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below


This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php

The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html

Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby

Race and The Great Gatsby:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/

https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby

https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article

For the film..

The Great Gatsby (2013) - IMDb

The Great Gatsby movie review (2013) | Roger Ebert

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Arrival, Get Out and Parasite

 Arrival:

critical sources for arrival film - Google Search

Get Out 

critical sources for get out film - Google Search

Parasite"

critical sources for parasite film - Google Search

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"The Temp," "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and Edward Scissorhands

 Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:



Here is one on the effects of culture shock:

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=
This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhandsin class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.






Office Culture:




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Truman Show and "The Allegory of the Cave"

  The Truman Show 

The Real Lesson of 'The Truman Show' - The Atlantic

The Truman Show movie review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert

[PDF] Reading 'The Truman Show' inside out | Semantic Scholar

Director Tries a Fantasy As He Questions Reality - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

"The Allegory of the Cave"

The Essence of Human Freedom: An Introduction to Philosophy and The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame

The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay - YouTube

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler - YouTube

Plato's Simile of Light (continued). Part II. The Allegory of the Cave (zenodo.org)

Both 

The Truman Show & Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: A Journey Beyond Illusions | by Aleeza Wasi | Medium

The Parallels of 'Allegory of the Cave' and 'The Truman Show' (thefilmbandit.com)

Allegory of the Cave — TOK RESOURCE.ORG

Platon and Truman Show. “Good morning, and in case I don’t see… | by Çağatay Kılınç | Medium

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The Great Gatsby

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