Gatsby’s Secret

Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.

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“...of all of the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a May 1925 letter to literary critic Edmund Wilson

One fall semester in the late 1990s, Medgar Evers College professor Carlyle V. Thompson was assigned to teach “Introduction to Literature,” oblig…