| dc.description.abstract | The musical layer embedded in some of the works of the American writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald has attracted the curiosity of scholars and has been a central
object of research since the second half of the 20th century. This fact, as well as
the author's interest in music, which he maintained throughout his entire life,
and the influence of it on the popular culture of the 1920s, lay at the basis of the
idea of providing a closer look at some of the musical references made in Fitzgerald’s
most famous piece of writing, “The Great Gatsby” (1925). The present
paper chooses to focus on three of the eight songs identified in the novel in order
to demonstrate that their mutual interweaving enriches the narrative by either
setting a different perspective to previously registered themes, motifs and symbols
and their meaning, or further confirming what is already known about the
characters and the motivation behind their actions. | en_US |
