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Janet Savage
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Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface
Janet Savage, author
This book expounds upon the thesis that Jay Gatsby, the much beloved hero of The Great Gatsby, is a man of mixed black and white parentage who pretends and appears to be a white man. A close review of the novel, Fitzgerald's life and letters and the racially charged climate of the Jazz Age, shows how America's troubled conscience about race laces through the novel and supports its central theme: the doomed pursuit of the American Dream. Fitzgerald himself said that even the most enthusiastic reviewers did not understand what the novel was about. Read this to see what we missed.
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