The three film adaptations of the novel in turn depict directors’ take on the novel as well as exhibiting the limitations, predilections, and technical possibilities of the time of their production: Nugent’s (1949), Clayton’s (1974), and Luhrmann’s (2013). Their approaches demonstrate the many ways The Great Gatsby can be viewed and thus its richness as a text. The thesis suggests that the four critical studies discussed reflect viewpoints impacted by the cultural and socio-economic factors that marked the decade of their appearance: Kermit Moyer (1973), Ross Posnock (1984), Ray Canterbery (1999), and Benjamin Shreier (2007). Four critical studies in different decades of recent history are analyzed to show the different approaches to the novel as well as its relation to the American Dream. The role of criticism and adaptations and how they intertwined to popularize the novel among the academic elite and the general public is examined. The thesis explores how the literary status of Fitzgerald’s novel published in 1925 evolved from being dismissed to becoming a canonical work of American Literature after the death of its author.
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