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The Great Gatsby: Advanced York Notes A Level Revision Guide

A Level Study Notes and Revision Guides

The Great Gatsby: Advanced York Notes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Study contents
Revision contents

Introduction

Introduction

How to study a novel, Reading The Great Gatsby

The Text

Note on the text

How The Great Gatsby came to be, Synopsis

Chapter 1

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 2

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 3

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 4

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 5

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 6

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 7

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 8

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Chapter 9

Summary, Commentary, Glossary

Extended commentary 1

Text 1 – pp. 17–18 (Chapter 1)

Extended commentary 2

Text 2 – pp. 56–8 (Chapter 3)

Extended commentary 3

Text 3 – pp. 88–9 (Chapter 5)

Extended commentary 4

Text 4 – PP. 94–6 (Chapter 6)

Extended commentary 5

Text 5 – pp. 170–2 (Chapter 9)

Critical Approaches

Themes

American ideals, The American Dream, The Frontier, Desire and the sense of purpose, Vision and insight, Codes of conduct

Techniques

The narrator, Dialogue and the scenic method, Cinematic techniques, Symbolism, Intricate patterning

Characterisation

Critical History

Critical history

Reactions on publication

Recent approaches

Background

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Biography, His other works

Historical background

The Jazz Age and the Lost Generation, Advertising and the mass market, Conspicuous consumption, Prohibition and organised crime, Mass culture, Photographs

Literary background

Study Tools

Chronology

Further reading

Other works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Biographies, General reading, Critical studies

Literary terms

Great Gatsby - York Notes