AMST 246 - Lecture 5 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II | Open Yale Courses

Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of The Great Gatsby by evaluating the cross-mapping of the auditory and visual fields in the novel’s main pairs of characters. Beginning with an analysis of the Jazz Age, she argues that linkages between what is heard and what is seen have important implications for the overarching themes of The Great Gatsby, including notions of accountability, responsibility, illusion, and disillusion. She focuses on the linked characters of Daisy and Jordan Baker, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, to show how their convergences and divergences tell the entire store of Gatsby’s decline and fall. Chapter 1. The Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby [00:00:00] Professor Wai Chee Dimock: Last time, we talked about the odd presence of race in The Great Gatsby. Even though there's no African-American character in The Great Gatsby, there's an undercurrent of allusions to race, especially in that seemingly gratuitous scene when Nick and Gatsby are going to town in Gatsby's

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