ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jay Gatsby, Hop Along
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Focus of this semester: master narrative, tellability. Used to question the master narrative of a story. Alternate title for the great gatsby under the red, white and blue: a classic american tale about the american dream", the jazz age 1920. Distinguished by the gentle folk and wealthy: the novel didn"t become popular until the 1940"s. The novel looks at three different kinds of men: gatsby materialistic wealth, tom materialistic wealth and a bully, nick will be analysed on jan 10. All three men are westerners who moved to the east. The great gatsby: a warning about adopting characteristics of who we feel we should be. Don"t adopt things without looking at them critically: jay gatsby is a walking, talking fiction. Were looked up to as role models. He dedicated himself to an adolescent idea of what being an adult meant. He never moved past this idea: explains some of his more childish moments in the novel.
