I’ve added some links to supplement my “Gatsby Clues and Connections” PowerPoint that we looked at last week. For a more detailed analysis of Francis Cugat’s dust jacket cover for Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as well as information about the collaboration between these two artists, follow the link to “Celestial Eyes: from Metamorphosis to Masterpiece” (where I got a lot of useful information for parts of my presentation). Also check out The New York Times review of The Great Gatsby from 1925; the reviewer describes the novel as “a curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today.”
I’ve alluded to experimental and semi-autobiographical aspects of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s first novel that garnered him instant fame and success. The etext can be found here if you want to skim parts of the story (I recommend “The Debutante,” the first chapter of Book Two written like a play).
