“An Indefinite Procession of Shadows”: Fitzgerald on Film in The Great Gatsby

Yıl 2015, Sayı: 41, 17 - 23, 01.04.2015

Ian Olney

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This article examines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s representation of film in The Great Gatsby. Offering a close reading of Chapter VI of the novel, I seek to demonstrate that cinema functions in it as a means of metaphorically underscoring the illusory nature of Gatsby’s lifestyle and identity. Although critics have tended to focus on the crucial role film plays in Fitzgerald’s later fiction, I argue it is here, early in his career, that Fitzgerald begins to work out the themes that consume him in its final phase

Anahtar Kelimeler

Fitzgerald, Gatsby, film, metaphor, illusion

Kaynakça

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