The Other in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2012, Pages 570-583 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali Hamada Mgallad | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract THE GREAT GATSBY is a great novel indeed. It contains, besides its elements, a significant pattern of delineation of the image of the other. This pattern is significant because it can be taken as an example of the way by which certain American writers view the other and shows the dimensions of that view. This research is an attempt to relate to the origins of that view and to show how it develops in the light of post-modernist criticism. It is introduced with the concept of the other in the post-modernist approaches. It adopts Jacques Lacan’s and Paul Ricoeur’s critical assumptions and refers too to Sigmund Freud’s and others’. It analyzes and highlights the racial and cultural aspects of the central characters’ views of the other. “…the subject appears first in the other…” (1) Jacques Lacan | ||
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