Introduction to Great Gatsby

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What are the 4 Literary Lens are we going to use whilst reading?

  1. Marxist

  2. Feminist

  3. New Historicism

  4. Psychoanalytical

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What is New Historicism?

the idea that literature is largely influenced by the culture of the author’s time

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Great Gatsby takes place…

  • in the 1920s

  • between WWI and The Great Depression

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Nick makes many references to…

WWI

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Fitzgerald is credited with predicting the Great Depression with his depictions of…

the unstable party life and excess money spending