Classics Corner — F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Lecture Classics Corner F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Tara Hayes , lecturer The summer The Great Gatsby 's narrator, Nick Carraway, meets Jay Gatsby is the season he discovers the kind of man he wants to be in the world. Published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is, of course, the story of Gatsby's quest to recapture Daisy, her love and their past. Witnessed and aided by Nick, Gatsby's pursuit crashes headlong into the heart of America and its Dream. In this lecture, we discuss Fitzgerald's original text before the musical adaptation comes to Hayes Hall beginning February 2. This presentation is part of Tara Hayes' Classics Corner series. This year's season focuses on the journey. The quest. The odyssey. The path. Whether travel is undertaken individually or in a group, whether the obstacles to overcome are monsters of enormous size or personal fears and anxieties, whether or not the treasure or destination sought is actually found, all progress leads to the most significant of achievements: self-knowledge. The three foundational texts of the Western literary tradition with which Classics Corner returns in 2027 each take the reader on a particular journey and reveal that it is always the search itself that matters most.