Many of us first encountered "The Great Gatsby" in a high school English class, there meeting the mysterious Jay Gatsby, his observant neighbor Nick Carraway and his siren-like cousin Daisy Buchanan.

3. Gatsby's Moment Of Violence There's a great line in the novel, during the hotel confrontation between Gatsby and Buchanan, where Gatsby, after finally cracking under the pressure of Buchanan's ...

Why ‘The Great Gatsby’ Parties On From Page to Stage, 100 Years After Publication By Gordon Cox. Plus Icon. Gordon Cox ... For Kait Kerrigan, the musical’s book writer, ...

Garden parties may be back in vogue, but no one can throw a summer bash like Jay Gatsby. For a stylish page-turner, why not dip back into Fitzgerald’s classic tale of indulgence and spirit ...

But for Goldman, there's still a lot Gatsby has to teach kids about the craft of writing. Students can learn a lot about structure and syntax from Fitzgerald's writing, she said. "It's only 180 pages.

Gatsby's death comes as a shock, and it's only once we close the book that we see how the pieces fit, that we see why Gatsby had to die. We understand that a man who lived for nothing but an ill ...