The Great Gatsby a novel for OUR current time
Just got finished teaching this classic novel and it’s a wonderful book to be teaching in our current economic climate. The book is about the infamous Jazz Age and about the materialization and excess of the wealthy and what can happen to the American Dream. In America today we are just coming out of almost 20 years of living the “high life” and people buying more than they need, etc. Students reacted well to the book and of course they were involved more in the love story but I think they see the connection to “cruel rich” and their stuck up attitudes, etc. Next year we will be teaching it to sophomores and I’m not sure they will see the deeper meaning as my juniors have. Well, anyway it’s a wondeful book that is so full of symbolism that I really enjoy teaching.
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