Gatsby’s "books"
An owl-eyed man at a Gatsby party sits in awe in the library, murmuring with amazement that all the books on Gatsby’s shelves are...Long Island and New York City in the early 1920s
The story is set in
New York...First Person (Peripheral Narrator): Nick Carraway
The story is told in the first person, through the eyes of Nick Carraway. The primary and most visible story...Literary Fiction, Modernism
Almost anything on the Shmoop module list would probably fit under the category of "literary fiction": it's an umbrella term for a...Cynical, Ironic
Nick is one cynical little cookie. Even though Nick reserves explicit judgment on the characters, Fitzgerald still manages to implicitly criti...Soldierly, Confessional, A herd of galloping horses
Hold on to your hats, Shmoopsters, because once you ride the Fitzgerald train, there’s no stopping. Y...For such a short title, The Great Gatsby can be interpreted in a couple different ways. Is Gatsby great? Or is Fitzgerald being ironic? Let’s break it down.
The way we see it, t...
"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" – Thomas Parke D...
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