F. Scott Fitzgerald's Odyssey: A Reader's Guide to the Gospels in The Great Gatsby [Paperback]

Here for the first time a reader can understandThe Great Gatsbyas F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote it. Fitzgerald wanted praise for showing skills like those of James Joyce inUlysses.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 fromThe 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'sThe Odyssey.Bernard Tanner, graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English Literature, is retired after teaching secondary school in the Palo Alto Unified School District for thirty years.

Chapter 1 Abbreviations
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Issues of Literary History
Chapter 6 Fitzgerald ReadsUlyssesand WritesThe Great Gatsby
Chapter 7 Puzzling Reviews, Plaudits, and Hints toUlysses
Chapter 8 Falling and Rising Popularity ofThe Great Gatsby
Chapter 9 ReconsideringThe Great Gatsby
Chapter 10 A Reader's Guide to the Gospels inThe 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 inTrimalchio
Chapter 22 Fitzgerald's Use of Dichotomy Topics
Chapter 23 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 24 About the Author