The Great Gatsby
Source Types and Secondary Sources-LITERARY CRITICISM
Assignment Overview: In this research paper, you will determine what you believe is life’s greatest treasure. Your task is to explore your own perspective on this question, supported by insights from The Great Gatsby and additional research. Through this project, you will reflect on your personal values, connect them to literature, and use research to strengthen your ideas.
To answer this question, you will read both literary criticism and contemporary news sources that are
SECONDARY SOURCES
Here's an overview of the different sources we use in research:
Primary sources: original data. For this paper, your primary source will be The Great Gatsby
Secondary sources: Another writer's interpretation of your writer's work. Examples: literary criticism, journal articles, or scholarly papers.
Tertiary sources: more commonly known as reference sources, tertiary sources provide a general overview of a topic when starting research. You can use a tertiary source for your value source and/or your counterclaim source.
SECONDARY SOURCES
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The links below are to literary criticism or critical papers on The Great Gatsby These are SECONDARY SOURCES because they are pieces written ABOUT the book you are studying and not by the author himself. You have specific pages to read, but the whole essay could have useful information.
After reading the provided secondary source, you will then find another secondary source on the databases or the internet (.gov, .org, .edu are preferable sites that will have the most reliable information).
- Money
Driving to Destruction with the Rich and Careless at the Wheel pgs 2-4
A Commentary on the Wealthy of America
- Happiness
A Commentary on the Wealthy of America
- Love
- American Dream
Great Gatsby and the American Dream
- Time
- Identity
A Commentary on the Wealthy of America
- Family
An Unusual Case of Mate Poaching
- Friendships
SECONDARY Sources-CONTEMPORARY ARTICLES
The New York Times
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New York Times The articles linked below are all contemporary views of these themes in American Society. Cite all of them as online articles on NoodleTools |
- Money
- Happiness
- Love-cite as a podcast
- American Dream
- Time
- Identity
- Family
- Friendships
Tertiary Source Links-Use for additional sources and counterclaims
- Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s
Presents an expansive collection of primary sources, organized in five themes
- NewClash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
Primary source materials (cartoons, documents and photographs) from the Ohio State University History Department, topic segments include Prohibition; Immigration Restriction and the KKK; The New Woman and The Scopes Trial.
Informational page about the history of the 1920s (you may have used this for history)
Historical background of the 1920s
An editorial about how we see this book today
A look at the 100 year celebration of the birth of this novel.
An older piece on how central Gatsby is to our American psyche