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  1. 1. “The bottle of whiskey – a second one – was now in constant demand by all present” : Alcohol Consumption as Cultural Capital and Part of Habitus in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Magdalena Wojnar; [2020]
    Keywords : The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald; alcohol consumption; habitus; Pierre Bourdieu; Prohibition; 1920s; United States;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the status of alcohol consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). The analysis focuses on character study reading of Jay Gatsby, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, by placing habitus in the specific historical context of the novel. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Dream : A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Conceptualization of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hugo Älfvåg; [2020]
    Keywords : The American Dream; Dreams; Desires; Psychoanalysis; Id; Ego; Super-Ego; Trauma;

    Abstract : F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed classic The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, poetically captures the zeitgeist of the roaring twenties, and has attracted considerable attention regarding the depiction of the American dream. READ MORE

  4. 3. What loving Gatsby does to the narration of a novel

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elna Olofsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay examines the narration in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby by posting that the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, is unreliable and in love with protagonist Jay Gatsby. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Study of Daisy Buchanan’s influence on Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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    Author : Hanna Persson; [2019]
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  6. 5. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation : Jay Gatsby’s Id, Superego, Ego, and Core Issues

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Flavia Miranda O'Shea; [2019]
    Keywords : The Great Gatsby; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic criticism; id ego superego; fear of abandonment; low self-esteem; insecure sense of self; Jay Gatsby;

    Abstract : The present essay attempts a psychoanalytic interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby’s id, superego, ego, and core issues. The first stage of the paper offers an analysis of Gatsby’s id, superego and ego; and finds that the id largely rules his behaviour, with few instances where the ego takes control and manifests the superego. READ MORE