American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1405 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Great Gatsby*
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The idea
Published in nineteen twenty-five, the novel puts a mysterious rich neighbour in a Long Island mansion throwing parties for strangers, in order to draw back a woman he loved before the war. It is short, patterned, narrated by an onlooker, and the period's most taught novel.
In practice
A mansion, a party, a distant woman.
Where people slip
The book failed commercially in his lifetime.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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