Andrew ShieldsMay 1, 2025
The thesis that Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (1925) is a black man passing as white. #111Words #TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #NellaLarsen #Passing #WesleyLowery #CarlyleVThompson #Literature #Fiction #Novels https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-thesis-that-jay-gatsby-in-f-scott.html
The thesis that Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (1925) is a black man passing as white

In the last five years, I have had two students take exams with me on the subject of novels from the United States in the 1920s, with both l...