History Literature / TheGreatGatsby

* TearsOfAwe: When Gatsby invites Daisy and Nick to his mansion, the latter two get dumbfounded but the luxury, but what really made Daisy burst to tears was when she sees Gatsby's silk shirts and planting her face over such beautiful shirts. Whether the added layer of Daisy masking her feelings of regret of marrying Tom over Gatsby or being a shallow, materialistic woman that she loves the shirts over Gatsby is up to the reader's interpretation.

Does ''The Great Gatsby'' have screen adaptations? [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016938/ Do you]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041428 even]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577 have]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210719/ to]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/ ask?]] There's even a ''[[https://greatgatsbygame.com/ video game]]''. And an {{opera}}. And at least one play. And an Off-Broadway musical. The [[Film/TheGreatGatsby1974 1974 film starring Robert Redford]] and the [[Film/TheGreatGatsby2013 2013 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio]] have their own trope pages. There's also a young adult novel that reimagines the story [[HighSchoolAU in high school]] written by Creator/GordonKorman called Literature/JakeReinvented.

[[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia Required reading in high school for a lot of people.]]

** Tom mentions a white supremacist author named Goddard and his book ''The Rise of the Colored Empires'', an {{allusion}}[=/=]TakeThat to eugenicists Madison ''G''rant and Lothrop St''oddard'' (who was a protegé of the former). (The former's ''Passing of the Great Race'' and the latter's ''The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy'', with introduction written by the former, were highly popular books in 1920s high society, although mostly forgotten today due to their direct influence on Hitler himself.)

* ConsummateLiar: Nick suspects Gatsby of this. He has a MultipleChoicePast, and one that has every cliche of the GreatWhiteHunter thrown in, at that. However, some evidence Nick finds later suggests that perhaps Gatsby isn't making it all up. It's ultimately not clear how much Gatsby is lying, but he's certainly not being completely honest about everything. It has been pointed out that Gatsby claims to have been in charge of his regiment's Lewis guns in combat when the US Army never used them in France but this may have been an error on Fitzgerald's part as he joined up in the First World War but never made it to Europe.

* ConsummateLiar: Nick suspects Gatsby of this. He has a MultipleChoicePast, and one that has every cliche of the GreatWhiteHunter thrown in, at that. However, some evidence Nick finds later suggests that perhaps Gatsby isn't making it all up. It's ultimately not clear how much Gatsby is lying, but he's certainly not being completely honest about everything.

* CatchPhrase: Gatsby calls everyone "old sport." Lampshaded by Tom: