News

WSHU20d
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 ...
Houston Public Media20d
100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
The Great Gatsby — 100 years old ... introduces himself in Chapter 1 of the novel by spouting ideas from a popular book on eugenics that he's been reading. Civilizations going to pieces ...
Newsday21d
'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel
"The Great Gatsby," a century old this month ... the only hint of gore "a thin red circle in the water." "Gatsby" ends a chapter later. It is night and Carraway, sitting on the North Shore ...
KERA News20d
100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
The Great Gatsby — 100 years old ... that had begun pouring into the city in the late 1880s. By 1920, only 1 million of the city's 6 million residents were white, native-born Protestants.