The Valley of the Ashes
The Perfect Hour
Park Avenue in the Jazz Age
When the Rich-Poor Gap Widens, ‘Gatsby’ Becomes a Guidebook - NYTimes August 31, 2006
F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald Portfolio
1925 New York Times Review of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
Fitzgerald Topics at the NYTimes
"Echoes of the Jazz Age" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
PBS The Amercan Novel - video clip
On J.D. Salinger - Except perhaps for Mark Twain, no other American writer has registered with such precision the humor — and the pathos — of false sophistication and the vital banality of big-city pretension.
David Brooks referring to Gatsby - As D. H. Lawrence wrote, America “starts old, old, wrinkled and writhing in an old skin. And there is a gradual sloughing of the old skin, towards a new youth.” . . . this desire has played out in American literature, from Melville’s Billy Budd to Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, and in politics, from Jackson to Kennedy to Obama.
Eric Roth in the Winter issue of All Story on the literary origins of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - It is said the idea came from a notion articulated by Mark Twain about the end of life being such a pain in the ass, and why couldn't we in God's great design have grown in the opposite direction: from old to young. We needn't discuss how youth may be wasted on the young, but suffice to say the Mark Twain piece was given to F. Scott by his editor, one Maxwell Perkins. That, along with dandling a new baby—with all the sights and smells an infant brings—and an empty pocket or two, must have twirled around Fitzgerald's fertile brain and a story was born.
Fitzgerald's original story is here.
Poems by Billy Collins and other New York region poets.
Amid Family’s Quarrels, a Home Worthy of Gatsby Begins to Crumble
By BRUCE LAMBERT
NYTimes August 26, 2007
At the property believed to have inspired the fictional home of "The Great Gatsby," floors are rotting, windows are paneless and the grounds have become overgrown.
Ten Things to Do Before This Article Is Finished
By ALEX WILLIAMS
NYTimes August 26, 2007
Jay Gatsby had one . . . . Once the province of bird-watchers, mountain climbers and sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the life list has become widely popular with the harried masses, equal parts motivational self-help and escapist fantasy.
Use primary source documentation from the U.S. Library of Congress American Memory Collection to prove evidence of a theme from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in a social, cultural, economic or political event or phenomena of the 1920s.
What Are Primary Sources? Artifacts, documents, oral histories, sounds and visuals that comprise a direct personal experience of a time or event. Check out these resources for using primary sources, including a Photo Analysis Guide. Look here for information on How to Cite Electronic Sources.
Examples of Primary Sources from the 1920s and The Great Gatsby.
Final project to include: Outline, Annotated Bibliography, Rough Draft and Final Draft including 5-7 primary sources, 2-3 critical sources, 7-10 citations, Works Cited, 1250-1500 words and MLA formatting.
Your paper should be inquiry-driven and have a specific center of gravity. Your conclusion is more important than your hypothesis. It would be appropriate to include multi-genre sources of information.
Due Dates:
Thesis - 2/17
Outline - 2/24
Annotated Bibliography - 2/28
Rough Draft - 3/2
Final Draft to Turnitin.com - 3/9
Common Themes in Literature
Theme Ideas
Defining features of thesis statements and research questions.
Creating an Annotated Bibliography
Sample Annotated Bibliography
How to Cite American Memory Sources
Noodle Tools
MLA Style Guides
English 11 Gatsby Research Paper
Final project to include: Five pages of notes, Outline, Rough Draft and Final Draft including 5-7 sources, 7-10 citations, Works Cited, 1250-1500 words and MLA formatting.
Due Dates:
Thesis - 2/17
Outline and Notes - 2/24
Rought Draft - 3/2
Final Draft to Turnitin.com - 3/9
Look here for ideas about topics: American Cultural History 1920-1929
Click Here - Using Primary Sources to Interpret Life during the 1920s
When the Rich-Poor Gap Widens, ‘Gatsby’ Becomes a Guidebook
By ROBERT H. FRANK
NYTimes August 31, 2006
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
F.Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald Photographic Portfolio at Princeton Unversity.
Check out the second line of this book review from today's NYTimes.
American Cultural History 1920-1929
A&E video notes: The Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald: PBS American Masters
Valley of Ashes
Guide to Literary Criticism on the Internet for F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Index to The Great Gatsby
Internet Public Library Guide to Online Literary Criticism
Timeline of American Literature, Music, and Movies
Fitzgerlad Featured at the New York Times
Includes 1925 Review of The Great Gatsby
E-text Editions:
Gatsby etext
The Great Gatsby
New York Public Library Web Resources and Digital Gallery
100 Years of New York City at the NYTimes
When the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center were going up and everyone felt the way Jay Gatsby and Nick Carroway did when they drove from Manhattan and Nick observed: "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
How to Build Skyscrapers By Robert Adam Spring 2002
The Valley of Ashes By Roger Starr Autumn 1992
The Voodoo That He Did So Well By Stefan Kanfer Winter 2003
Park Avenue in the Jazz Age By Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald Summer 1994
City Journal is quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute
The Perfect Hour
By James L. W. West III
Ginevra King was a rich, ravishing 16-year-old when F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with her in 1915. She was young enough to have lost her last two baby teeth only a few days before they met. She was young enough to write diary entries full of exclamation points ("Wonderful letter from Scott again to-day!") but old enough to be exquisitely immortalized in one of the greatest American novels. Had this schoolgirl socialite not bewitched the 18-year-old Fitzgerald and filled him with such longing, there would not have been a Daisy Buchanan to break Jay Gatsby's heart.
