the great gatsby (1974) by bloomingleopold on Flickr.
“It’s more than an American classic; it’s become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream….Fitzgerald’s prose somehow elevates a lurid and underdeveloped narrative to the level of myth.”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
