Study Guide ... The Great Gatsby: Notes

Study Guide … is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning supplying the most important information about the literary works and so fostering their comprehension.

The Great Gatsby is a study guide which includes. in the first part, the historical, social and literary background of its period and some biographical notes about the author, Francis Scott Fitzgerald.  The second part focuses on the work and deals with sources, setting, characters, commentary, critical approach, possible adaptations for theatre, cinema or television and further notes.