Annotated Bibliography – the Great Gatsby

“Stoddard, T. Lothrop.” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Hartwell Moore. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 100-101. 24 Nov, 2010-11-25.

Stoddard declares in his article the comparison between “The Rising Tide of Color against White World–Supremacy” and “The Great Gatsby” in a sense to signify wealthy “careless people” in jazz age. Stoddard suggests that how white race was considered as the supreme race and Tom says “Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?” he asks the novel’s narrator, indicating that “it’s a fine book and everybody ought to read it.

The idea is that if the white race isn’t careful, they will be utterly submerged. In the majority of his article, Stoddard compares his article to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay and notifies his ideas on racist subject that was put in the novel “The Great Gatsby” and calls it a scientific stuff. Also, he talks about the wealthy people being careless and their lifestyles in the jazz age.

Stoddard declares that it’s been proved that Fitzgerald has a great imagination which can be observed in his play “The Great Gatsby”.

Dawson, Charlene. “The American dream and the Great Gatsby – by Charlene Dawson – Helium.” Helium – Where Knowledge Rules. 24 Nov. 2010. .

Charlene Dawson mentions the American dream as “The Never-Satiated Dream”. Every character in “The Great Gatsby” has a American dream and some are already living it. Dawson describes that the characters in this novel don’t understand the true meaning of American Dream which is working hard and fulfilling your dreams. She explains further that sometimes in life you don’t achieve everything even though you worked hard for it. She uses the example of Jordan Baker who is a golf player and she can do anything to win. In the novel, Nick describes Jordan as “incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body” (63). Charlene Dawson also points towards the never ending contentment in people which leads them towards destruction.