And after collecting his students' phones, he gave them an assignment: Compare and contrast the themes, symbols and motifs found in The Great Gatsby to Parasite, the 2019 movie directed by Bong ...

In his new book, the former Hartford Courant columnist does a deep dive into the words, themes, actions and turns of phrase ...

Symbols. They're what literary genius ... And one of the most famous of all is The Green Light in "The Great Gatsby," which celebrates its 100th birthday on Thursday, April 10.

God is so absent from the world of “The Great Gatsby” that the closest any character can get to him is to turn to this vague symbol of his omniscience and omnipresence. (The original art on ...

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year ... It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism and the American dream, all those drinking parties with ...

Cars play a major role in “The Great Gatsby” too, both as a plot driver and as a symbol of power, speed and destruction. Gerlach (not pictured) may have rubbed shoulders with F. Scott and ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” will be celebrated ... Today, the Gold Coast stands as both a historical and cultural symbol of a bygone era. The novel’s critique of the American ...

Though only a fraction of its Gilded Age mansions remain, Long Island still offers a glimpse of the opulence that F. Scott ...

A symbol-laden novel like “Gatsby” offered ... For more than seven decades, high-school teachers have used “The Great Gatsby” to investigate the American Dream and its current state ...

Fitzgerald lived in a much more modest house just a few miles away when he was writing "The Great Gatsby." The Schietingers, though, believe the author must have visited here. They imagine him ...