Aldifianto, Islam Fickih. PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF JAY GATSBY AS SEEN IN FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”. Diss. Universitas Mataram, 2015.
In this study by Islam Fickih Aldifianto the important idea was to identify the psychological mind of Jay Gatsby through his journey of the American dream. The study found that the major conflicts of Gatsby’s psychology were shame and love. The author observed that Gatsby was trying to hide his past of lower-class status to try to impress Daisy to be with him. This means that Gatsby’s main goal of his own wealth was to show materialism to Daisy to win her over. The author supports my “I SAY” by showing the use of Gatsby’s Identity change and giving a way to explain his goal of the identity change to pursue the goal of his dreams.
GOLDBLATT, LAURA. “‘Can’t Repeat the Past?’ ‘Gatsby’ and the American Dream at Mid-Century.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2016, pp. 105–24, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44162974. Accessed 20 Apr. 2022.
This article by Laura Goldblatt talks about how the American dream is a utopian ideology and that that Gatsby’s dream of repeating the past is not possible for him to accomplish. The author uses the comparison of Dutch sailors and Gatsby’s demeanor of the American dream to emphasize the world that Gatsby sought out for himself. This relates to my topic as his sight to the world explains why he would try to make a new identity of himself. Gatsby tried to see a “New World” for himself to escape the past that he had. Even after he changed his identity, he changes himself to conform for a dream that he has which is getting back with Daisy which was in his past. Instead of believing in going forward he kept himself in the past which was already past him.
Jeanpierre, Shani. The Great Gatsby and the Struggle for Wealth, Purity, and the Pursuit of Identity. Diss. California State University Bakersfield, 2013.
Shani Jeanpierre focuses on the role of class, purity, and identity and the struggle for the characters to obtain and to contain those things in their life. The author explains the past struggles of most of the characters like how Gatsby was born into a poor background and was not wealthy enough to marry Daisy before the war. It even goes to point out how Gatsby only wears white to get closer to daisy and usually wears different colored suits compared to the other four main characters. An important observation that Shani shows is that Tom shows dominance over Gatsby without flexing money instead he uses brute force through his words to get to Gatsby and expose who he is. This observation proves my “I SAY” as Gatsby has built his identity off of his mysterious nature and wealth so when he is exposed to Daisy the tide turns against his dream of getting Daisy.
MURAKAMI, Yosuke. “The Great Gatsby as a Critique of the Self-Made Man.” The scientific report of Kyoto Prefectural University. Humanistic science 34 (1982): 39_a-29_a.
Yosuke Murakami’s article dives into the creation and the innovation of Jay Gatsby as a Self-Made Man. Yosuke highlights how Gatsby viewed his past and how he disowned his impoverished history almost as if he wiped it from the timeline of his life. Yosuke also shows the lies that Gatsby told to escape the life from before the success which is important for my topic as this proves that Gatsby changed his identity to fulfill his dedication to escape the time before his wealth and he would do anything to make sure people didn’t know who he really was and what he really came from.
Roberts, Marilyn. “Scarface, The Great Gatsby and the American Dream.” Literature Film Quarterly., vol. 34, no. 1, 2006, p. 71.
This article by Marilyn Roberts compares the self-invention and tragic downfall of Scarface and The Great Gatsby. She then ties them together on how they both play a part of the belief of the American dream. She shows the drive that both Tony and Jay Gatsby have to fulfill their rags to riches story. This article goes to show the influence of the Great Gatsby’s story as a tragic hero and the influence it had on gangster films. This article is relating to my topic by showing an external source comparison of Gatsby’s important choice of changing his identity. Gatsby wanted to get away from the past and used his use of hope and determination to do so and with him doing so and become the Jay Gatsby we know he was able to live the life he probably would’ve never gotten if he stayed in the rags form
Fitzgerald’s Rendering of a Dream Hearne, Kimberly The Explicator, 2010-07-12, Vol.68 (3), p.189-194.
The article by Kimberly Hearne looks into the perception of the American Dream by Fitzgerald. She goes on to show how Fitzgerald showed the flaws of the American Dream in the novel and translate the meaning to the article. This topic supports my I Say by referring the dream as flawed and shows that my stance repeating the past and the dream which can be anyone’s dream can be deceptive and cause harm to ones self if not careful.
Magistrale, Tony, and Mary Jane Dickerson. “The Language of Time in ‘The Great Gatsby.’” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 2, 1989, pp. 117–28, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111811. Accessed 14 May 2022.
In this article Tony Magistrale and Mary Jane Dickerson talk about how time works in the Great Gatsby. They go on to talk about how the novel portrays time as a fluid concept. Thid article supports my I Say by showing the details of what Gatsby does with his past in the future. They show how he doesn’t give it up and instead wants to go back to that past to do what he wanted to do before he was rich.
Vince, Raymond M. “‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Transformations of Space-Time: Fitzgerald’s Modernist Narrative and the New Physics of Einstein.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 5, 2006, pp. 86–108, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41583114. Accessed 14 May 2022.
In this article Raymond Vince explains how time and space has changed over time. Then he turns the time into a way to relate to The Great Gatsby. He also highlights the struggle of time which relates to my I Say by showing the past and present colliding with each other through Gatsby’s time in the novel.