Hi Class, I will be traveling to Albuquerque for an academic conference this week and may not be able to respond quickly. It will be best to reach me through email through Sunday. Your assignment this week is to finish reading The Great Gatsby and write the Great Gatsby paper. You can use the prompts I handed out in class or you can come up with your own. What I do not want is a summary. Make it an argument. Tell me about the symbolism or the theme or how you think Daisy and Gatsby are portrayed. Tell me how this novel reinforces or rejects Marxism. Connect this novel to another idea. The Gilded Age: •The period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century was an era noted for the widening social and economic gap between the powerful and the powerless, the “haves and the have-nots.” •Name given by Mark Twain for its greed and vulgarity, marked by conspicuous consumption by the newly rich as they flaunted their enormous personal wealth…the same weal
