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SFG75
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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: The Great Gatsby |
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I've decided to slog through this one, hopefully not alone, over on the book and reader.com website.
Some interesting items that I've posted over there from teh wikipedia Gatsby page.
| Quote: | The introduction features a poem attributed to Thomas Parke D'Invilliers, who is actually a character from Fitzgerald's first novel This Side Of Paradise.
Early in the book, Tom Buchanan describes to Nick a book he's reading, "Rise of the Colored Empire" by some Goddard. This book is a play on T. Lothrop Stoddard's book, "The Rising Tide of Color" printed about 1922. Fitzgerald obviously didn't want to use the real title and author (whether for dislike or era-appropriateness).
The college that Jay Gatsby was said to have attended for a few days ("disliking it because he had to support himself with janitor work"), St. Olaf College, is a liberal arts college located in Northfield, Minnesota, a short drive from where Fitzgerald grew up.
The situation of the Great Gatsby, a wealthy man of mystery haunting the society of his lost love, may owe something to Alexandre Dumas, père's Count of Monte Cristo.
The character of Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel is based on Arnold Rothstein, the real-life kingpin suspected to be behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
Fitzgerald originally wanted to title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg, after the character Trimalchio in The Satyricon that Gatsby resembles.
After The Great Gatsby went to press, Fitzgerald decided to change the title of the novel to "Under the Red, White, and Blue." He sent a telegram to his publisher asking whether it was too late to change it. (It was.)
The Great Gatsby was sometimes read out loud by Andy Kaufman in a faux British accent as a type of anti-humor.
Famous American author Truman Capote was originally hired as the screenwriter for the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. In his screenplay, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker were both written to be homosexual. Capote was removed from the project; Coppola rewrote the screenplay.
Seattle-based rock band Gatsby's American Dream derived their name from an obvious theme in the book.
Gatsby's copy of Hoppalong Cassidy is dated 1906, which is not possible since it was published in 1910.
East Egg and West Egg are thinly disguised versions of Port Washington and Great Neck, New York.
Business man Bill Gates has the words "It took me this long to reach the blue lawn." inscribed in his library which represent a famous quote from the book. |
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