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Book SynopsisHere for the first time a reader can understand The Great Gatsby as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote it. Fitzgerald wanted praise for showing skills like those of James Joyce in Ulysses. He set the table for a party to which no one came. No reviewers or interpreters of his novel until now have fully explained its structure, its individual chapter topics, biblical parodies, puns, games with numbers, and burlesques hidden in images. He drew from The Gospel According to John, a 5th century apocryphal book (The Gospel of Nicodemus), The Epistle of James, The Acts of the Apostles, and legends of the saints in ways similar to Joyce''s use of adventures in Homer''s The Odyssey.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Abbreviations Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Issues of Literary History Chapter 6 Fitzgerald Reads Ulysses and Writes The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Puzzling Reviews, Plaudits, and Hints to Ulysses Chapter 8 Falling and Rising Popularity of The Great Gatsby Chapter 9 Reconsidering The Great Gatsby Chapter 10 A Reader's Guide to the Gospels in The Great Gatsby Chapter 11 Using This Reader's Guide Chapter 12 The Structure of the Novel Chapter 13 The Shadowing of Jay Gatsby as Jesus Chapter 14 The Shadowing for Other Characters Chapter 15 Joyce's Doubling Motif Chapter 16 Chapter IV: The Dichotomy of Doubling Chapter 17 Implications of Imagery Chapter 18 Themes Chapter 19 Chapter VII: Visions of the Dead Chapter 20 Some Long and Notable Interpretations Chapter 21 Comparison of Chapter VI in Trimalchio Chapter 22 Fitzgerald's Use of Dichotomy Topics Chapter 23 Selected Bibliography Chapter 24 About the Author
