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What’s So Great about ‘The Great Gatsby’?

Reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Classic Novel of Anxiety and Hope

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Joel J Miller
Jan 22, 2024
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The other night I was reading Jory John and Pete Oswald’s book The Cool Bean to my four-year-old daughter. It’s about a Chickpea trying to negotiate disruptive social change. Was I surprised to see one of the illustrations wink at The Great Gatsby?

Detail of illustration from Jory John and Pete Oswald’s The Cool Bean (Harper, 2019).

No. Since its publicat…

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