Capitalism and the Fall of the American Dream: A Marxist Reading of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams.
The paper describes Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams from a Marxist perspective. It talks about Marxism from a twofold perspective. First, Fitzgerald creates elaborate geographical and structural maps that delineate where the bourgeoisie and proletariat begin and end. For instance, th...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 189 - 201 |
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