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Historiography Of The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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One of the difficulties in analysing the historiography of the Great Gatsby is that major works on the Great Gatsby only, really, began to be produced after the end of the Second World War. There was one major essay We shall, however, look at how critics received the book upon its release. We shall do this because it will give us a small amount of background opinion on the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby received rather mixed reviews, and did not sell overly well. It is pointed out the emptiness of the lives of the Buchannan’s. Even this early it is pointed out that Gatsby’s persona is a mere façade. Fitzgerald is also commended with the sharp-eyed observations that he records in the Great Gatsby of American society. We can
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