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Andrea Aragon

Prof. Schenk

Library 100

Dec 10, 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Meehan, Adam. "Repetition, Race, and Desire in The Great Gatsby." Journal of Modern

Literature, vol. 37 no. 2, 2014, pp. 76-91. Project MUSE.

Author Adam Meehan talks about The Great Gatsby and the life of it’s main character,

Jay Gatsby. He shows how Gatsby’s past has affected and changed his views on life. He

also mentions some of Gatsby’s desires and explains the significance behind each one of

them, along with how they affect him. In this paper, Meehan argues that there is a

repetition of race and desire in The Great Gatsby when it comes to Gatsby’s feelings

towards Daisy Buchanan. He fears that he will let her down if he does not live up to her

standards of being with a rich, high class man.

Nagel, James. "The Great Gatsby and the American Dream." Critical Insights: The American

Dream, edited by Keith Newlin, Salem, 2013. Salem Online.

Author James Nagel highlights the significance of Jay Gatsby’s role and motives in The

Great Gatsby. He talks about Gatsby’s past and how he went from “rags” to “riches”. He

explains that Gatsby is, in a way, afraid of failure because he knows that him and Daisy

Buchanan, Nick Caraway's cousin, are not on the same social or economic level. Because
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of this, he fears that he will not live up to Daisy’s expectations, which might cause her to

leave him. This passage comes from the book entitled Critical Insights: The American

Dream. The purpose of it is to explain the theme of the American Dream in the novel and

how it is portrayed by each character.

Pidgeon, John A. “The Great Gatsby.” Modern Age, vol. 49, no. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 178–182.

EBSCOhost.

John A. Pidgeon discusses the theme of the American Dream in the novel The Great

Gatsby. He provides some background information on how the American Dream came to

be and how important it has become over the years. He also talks about the main

character, Jay Gatsby, and his motives for wanting to pursue the American Dream.

Schiff, Jonathan. "Displaced Grief and Otherness in The Great Gatsby." Children's Literature

Review, edited by Jelena Krstovic, vol. 176, Gale, 2013. Literature Resource Center.

Accessed 3 Dec. 2018. Originally published in Ashes to Ashes: Mourning and Social

Difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction, Susquehanna University Press, 2001, pp. 100-

117.

Jonathan Schiff explains the effect of death in each character and how each one of them

grieves. He goes into detail about how Myrtle and Gatsby died, and how significant their

deaths are in the story. The purpose of this article is to show how each character handles

death and how these events changed the course of the story, whether it is by changing a
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character’s motives/desires or by taking the story to a new route, although most

characters do not handle death well.

Telgen, Diane. "The Great Gatsby." Novels for Students, edited by Diane Telgen, vol. 2, Gale,

1997, pp. 64-86. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Accessed 3 Dec. 2018.

Diane Telgen gives an overall look of The Great Gatsby. She provides a short author

biography before she begins to summarize some of the most important events in the story

such as the dinner at Daisy’s house in the beginning of the story, Myrtle’s party, Gatsby’s

party, and more. There are also short descriptions of every character in the story. The

purpose of this article is to provide background information on the novel so that the

reader has an idea of what the storyline is about.