• English

• Essay

• 3 pages

• WORD and PDF formats

• School site licence

• Author: Terry Oberg

This essay compares the novel, The Great Gatsby, with the TV documentary Park Avenue. it is aimed at Years 11 and 12.

Opening lines

F Scott Fitzgerald presents the American Dream through the eyes of his involved narrator, Nick Carraway. It is about “a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty.” Alex Gibney’s documentary presents a very different concept. No longer is the dream “vast.” It has become limited . . . .