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Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald and American classic

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The Washington Post |
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to embody American aspiration.
StamfordAdvocate |
Yet the distinct tang of a Connecticut sea breeze blows across the Sound, riffling the pages of this classic book and shaping its tone, sensibilities and meanings.
Axios |
A commercial failure at first, the book surged in popularity during World War II, when the U.S. government distributed it and other titles to soldiers.

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‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
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Was Gatsby Actually Black? As Novel Turns 100, One East Bay English Class Makes the Case
The discourse over Gatsby’s race has been ongoing for years. Janet Savage, a California writer and attorney, released her 2017 book Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface. A 2023 essay in The Atlantic meditated on the value of teaching race in Gatsby; the writer Alonzo Vereen claimed that it’s more important to view Gatsby as “unraced.”
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‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100. What’s it like teaching it today?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today? And do students still find it relevant?
WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR2d
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 and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.
The Economist28d
At 100 “The Great Gatsby” is as urgent as ever, old sport
A quarter of “The Great ... eras: Gatsby’s one-two of rejection and nostalgia writ large. Next, the issue of money, and related but distinct, the matter of American class. Spouting white ...
San Antonio Express-News7d
‘The Great Gatsby’ themes of wealth, insecurity and the American Dream endure
Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — wealth inequality and ... Fitzgerald confessed, “I am half-black Irish and had old American stock with the usual exaggerated ancestral pretensions.
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