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The Great Gatsby

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Book Summary

F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Major Works

About The Great Gatsby

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9

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Nick
Gatsby
Daisy

Critical Essays

Social Stratification: The Great Gatsby as Social Commentary
In Praise of Comfort: Displaced Spirituality in The Great Gatsby

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Goddard’s The Rise of the Colored Empires an allusion to Theodore Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1920).

The Great War World War I

hauteur disdainful pride; haughtiness; snobbery.

Hopalong Cassidy cowboy hero of novelist Clarence E. Mulford’s popular western series.

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