Part 1 Survey: The Great Gatsby and myth - the American myth, the non-American myth; the formalist approach - The Great Gatsby as craft, point of view, narrative, symbolism; the authorial perspective - winter dreams and the sensible thing, the diamond as big as the Ritz and the rich boy, absolution; the socio-historical approach, the withering of the American dream, the discredited dream, East and West; character - Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker. Part 2 Appraisal: the clock and the moon; a man's book - The Great Gatsby and women; The Great Gatsby and social class; The Great Gatsby and history.