The Great Gatsby | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Research and report on the social history of "the jazz age," the period in America between 1919 and 1929.
2. Research and report on the expatriate literary scene in Paris during the same period, 1919-1929. One good source is Ernest Hemingway's collection of autobiographical vignettes, A Moveable Feast, in which such writers as Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein appear as characters.
3. Read a story or novel by Ernest Hemingway and compare it to a Fitzgerald story or novel written at the same time. What are the stylistic differences? How does each author's style reflect...
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