Joseph Auciello
English teacher and department head in public and private schools
Published journalist
on literature,
education, and politics
Four Classes
10:30 – 12:00
April 2, 9, 16, 23
The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is a novel in which an extravagantly wealthy young man embarks on a doomed quest to reignite the sparks of a long-lost love. It has sold more than 30 million copies and is still thriving a century later. Why? We will read and talk together about what a Jazz Age story of love and obsession, money and greed, class and status, innocence and corruption, can teach us about our era.
Text: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, with an introduction by Jesmyn Ward. ISBN # 978-0-7432-7356-5. References in class will be to this edition, but other editions will be satisfactory.