Focus On The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald has been hailed as the apostle of the Jazz Age and his most famous protagonist, Gatsby, as the embodiment of the perilous pursuit of the American Dream. In this study Peter Davies asks whether The Great Gatsby goes in fact beyond these specifically American preoccupations to give us a powerful portrait of hope springing eternal in the human heart. He also examines the way in which the narrator, Nick Carraway, himself a character in the story, offers us a constantly shifting moral perspective on the other characters and their motives and actions as they touch Gatsby himself.

About the author:

Peter Davies is a staff writer at The Times. He is the author of William Blake, The Brontes, Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare's King Lear in the Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary Series.