Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896 - 1940
The Great Gatsby, 1925 - Special Parts
- The Valley of Ashes, an examination from PBSlearningMedia
- Picture of the real Valley of Ashes
- The Green Light. Anna Wulick
- Symbolism: the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, East and West Egg.
- Podcast
Symbolism: Explanation of the brilliance and use of the symbol of The Eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg - The concluding image of "The Dutch Sailors" - "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes ..."
- Explanation of the last sentence - "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past.": "It is a reference to the futility of our attempts to escape the past, even as we look to the future, dreaming of how “tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther”." Mark Eltringham, Mix Interiors magazine; October 25, 2013
- The Last Lines: "These final lines capture both the hope that the future can be better than the past, and the difficulty of ever-moving beyond the past." John Messerly, Reason and Meaning; April 2, 2015
- "The Great Gatsby" and the Voice Full of Money. Will Norman, University of Kent School of English