This is an Online Internet Book Club on The Great Gatsby CD by F Scott Fitzgerald. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction.
This deceptively simple work, Fitzgerald's best known, was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies some of America's strongest obsessions: wealth, power, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, his agent, Harold Ober, and friends and associates, including Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, John Peale Bishop and Gertrude Stein.
Performed by Tim Robbins
Book Club Questions for The Great Gatsby CD (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for The Great Gatsby CD (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on The Great Gatsby CD:
- Did F Scott Fitzgerald emphasize any specific themes throughout The Great Gatsby CD? What do you think F Scott Fitzgerald is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of The Great Gatsby CD and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout The Great Gatsby CD? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does The Great Gatsby CD reveal F Scott Fitzgerald's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think F Scott Fitzgerald is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of The Great Gatsby CD affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did F Scott Fitzgerald's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for The Great Gatsby CD (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for The Great Gatsby CD (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on The Great Gatsby CD:
- Did F Scott Fitzgerald make persuasive arguments in The Great Gatsby CD? Did The Great Gatsby CD change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from The Great Gatsby CD?
- How does F Scott Fitzgerald present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is F Scott Fitzgerald biased within The Great Gatsby CD? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does The Great Gatsby CD make you want to read next? Why?
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