Description: How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.
Brief description: Robert Beuka is associate professor of English at Bronx Community College, City College of New York.
Review Quotes: [E]xcellent . . . . Fitzgerald scholars and canny students will be grateful for this book for a long time to come, not just for the way it organizes its diverse materials and makes sense of the various trends in Gatsby criticism, but mainly for its clear analyses of the best and sometimes not very good examples of that criticism, and for illustrating how The Great Gatsby became great.-- "THE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD REVIEW"