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Will, Barbara. "" The Great Gatsby" and the Obscene Word." College Literature (2005): 125-144. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): When there are quotes within something larger quoted (like a title), use single quotation marks: “‘The Great Gatsby’. . .” Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Looks like you’re using old MLA; see updated here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_electronic_sources.html (article in online database)You found these articles in databases, right? Be sure to cite them

This article is centered around on and examines an important scene that occurs later on in The Great Gatsby. The particular scene stages Gatsby's final redemption and exemplification as an American icon. The author throughout the scene aims to highlight the process through which Gatsby's character is extenuated for Gatsby's story to become America's story. In an attempt to illustrate the whitewashing process, Barbara Will identifies a central uncertainty within the scene which is linked to the historical context of the novel. The author presents his her suspicions about the old American nobility discernment of greatness. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Italicize title of novel (throughout your paper)Also, don’t justify margins; just left-hand align Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): What does this mean in this context? Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Can you begin this whole section with a succinct, specific statement of Will’s argument? That would be helpful for each of your summaries—and it’s something you’ll want to do in your research paper

This is Aa provocative article by Barbara Will focusing on the final paragraphs of this story. This article contributes vastly to the literature of The Great Gatsby as it stands out by focusing on the most important final scenes of the novel. The author accurately succeeds in transforming the story of Jay Gatsby which is filled by life failures and loss into becoming an iconic figure consists of original American hope and greatness. Will has critically examined the intermediate scene immediately preceding the last four paragraphs of the text revealing its significance to building the plot. The author’s bias is on obscene word doodled n Gatsby’s steps Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Will or Fitzgerald? Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Good and be explicit about what makes this a solid interpretation (which I think is what you’re suggesting here) Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Not a finished thought, but I actually think this just needs to be cut because it veers off into another direction.

Kerr, Frances. "Feeling" Half Feminine": Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in The Great Gatsby." American Literature 68.2 (1996): 405-431. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Use hanging indent (second and consecutive lines indented half an inch)

This article centers around the works of Fitzgerald and in particular The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is referred to as a clown by critics. In this article, Kerr examines the rhetorical features and scarcely inconspicuous paranoia centered around a gendered female in early modernist thoughts of art and the imaginative process. The author highlights these features in The Great Gatsby’s narrative structure as well as in the narrator’s psychology. Kerr attempts to provide insight into the narrative structure consistent with Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in addition to the psychology of its narrator who is Nick Carraway. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Centers on is the right phrasing Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): This sentence is somewhat awkward; has lots going on, hard to follow Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Get a little more control of your presentation; you shift, without clear reason or much signaling to your readers, between general and specific, between talk of the novel and talk of broader context—keep each sentence focused on one idea.

This is an in-depth analysis of The Great Gatsby and it offers an interesting insight into the narrative structure as well as the femininity of Scott Fitzgerald. Kerr is biased on offering awareness about the paranoia surrounding the main character Gatsby and his perception to be viewed as feminine. The author presents a critical analysis of Fitzgerald's femininity and Gatsby's femininity concluding that the author's femininity led to the feminization of his characters. The author's work contributes to the literature on the subject by focusing on the modernism acts of metaphorical sex whereby the poet renews a feminized emotional and intellectual strength. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Do you think this is a weakness of the article?

Hanzo, Thomas A. "The Theme and the Narrator of" The Great Gatsby"." Modern Fiction Studies (1956): 183-190. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): indent

The author disputes that Fitzgerald uses Nick as the narrator to reconnoiter American morality. Gatsby is a deviation of the American success story whereas Nick is an model of an American's career in a civilization that is more refined than they are used to. Hanzo highlights how Fitzgerald was able to combine The Great Gatsby theme and the narrator's identity through the use of first-person narration. On one hand, Nick is highlighted as the moral center of the book while Gatsby is his contrast. The author makes a very convincing argument on how the theme of morality would be absent without Nick. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): use words you’re more comfortable with; make sure readers can easily follow along.

The author is biased on presenting the distinction in characters between Nick and Gatsby. On one hand, Gatsby is alone, secretive, passionate while Nick makes friends easily, he leads an ordinary life and is quite sane. Similarly, the Hanzo accurately argues that Fitzgerald uses Nick as the speaker to search American morality through the combined use of first-person narration. The author's tone is accurate in providing sufficient evidence from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby supporting Gatsby's lack of conscience and the narrator's life of moral scrutiny. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Not sure what you mean by this—just state what the strengths and weaknesses are; do you not think there’s a justification for distinguishing between Nick and Gatsby? Explain that.

MacKendrick, Paul L. "The Great Gatsby and Trimalchio." The Classical Journal 45.7 (1950): 307-314. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Indent

This classical journal article is centered around Scott Fitzgerald's intent to give the title Trimalchio to his novel The Great Gatsby. but hHe was finally deterred because the name was quite difficult for the public to pronounce and spell. The author argues that the ancient and modern world. In chapter 7 of the novel, Trimalchio talks about a character in the novel The Satyricon named Moby Petronius. The Trimalchio of the novel is a flamboyant man, which is a direct correlation to Jay Gatsby’s character. Also, Trimalchio is a former slave, but later on, he attains a life much different from his prior meager means which is similar to Jay Gatsby’s character, thus two different men, in two eras striking for the same acceptance by others. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Not sure the import of this adjective Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): What’s the conclusion MacKendrick draws regarding this original title/name?

The author's tone indicates their bias to see the ancient and modern world within one view. MacKendrick attempts to interpret ancient authors to students of modern literature by delving into the misty side streets of literature. The author accurately identifies and compares the similar traits shared by both Gatsby and Trimalchio. MacKendrick general emphasis on the similarities of two men existing into different periods is an important contribution to the literature of the subject. The author's bias is that Fitzgerald was accurate in his intent to name his novel Trimalchio as he was in naming it The Great Gatsby since they both referenced the same basic ideas and character traits. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Is this good or bad? (cut the “bias” talk—doesn’t communicate much to your reader)

Wolfsdorf, Adam. "Mourning and Melancholia in The Great Gatsby." The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 17.1 (2019): 233-247.

This article is centered on Wolfsdorf’s insight on the aspects of melancholy and mourning surrounding the character’s personality. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is both formed and wrecked by the passionate personality intensifying his feelings for Daisy. At the beginning of the novel, Gatsby has not seen Daisy for five years, nonetheless, the power of his inebriating infatuations has grown substantially although Daisy has moved on with her life. The author sheds a light on Gatsby's pathological state of grief which enslaves him and subsequently demonstrates how Gratz’s premature immorality is a prequel to Gatsby’s inescapable demise.

Wolfsdorf effectively examines the distinction and understand the experiences of social remembrance between melancholy and mourning. The author's tone is that the novel does not submit to a melancholy impulse without a struggle. Two major points emerge from this analysis, first, the author describes his sense of the problem with the rehabilitation of melancholia both in the implicit and descriptively generalized form. The author's bias is that the more political versions of the argument have yoked melancholia. The article suggests that the novel is a representation of a prevailing strand of American novelty which has distressing similarities with modern-day notions about mourning. Nonetheless, this works contributed to the literature of the subject is significant as melancholia is the visual means via which Fitzgerald changes an emerging critique of present entrepreneurship and misogyny into a submissive submission of both. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Of what? Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Is Wolfsdorf the subject for this? Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Is tone the right word here? Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): Wordy—the argument is significant. . .

Boyle, Thomas E. "Unreliable Narration in The Great Gatsby." Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 23.1 (1969): 21-26. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): indent

The Great Gatsby is a novel by Scott Fitzgerald whereby a character by the name Nick Carraway narrates the story in first-person narrated story. Nick is not a reliable narrator thus does not do a great job of telling the story. First, the unreliability of Nick is revealed when he leads the reader to become suspicious of the facts he omits. Due to the overtness of his deception a little suspicion is created revealing the fact that they live in a world with an overflow of hypocrisy. Fitzgerald approach of creating unreliable narrators allows the reader to assertively reach their own conclusion pertaining the narrator. Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): no need for this background info about the story; just cut to the discussion of the article Comment by Baggett, Mary Elizabeth (English): not sure what Boyle’s argument is from reading this?

The author’s tone in reference to the narrator hints of dishonesty thus causing the reader to anticipate an occurrence of a bad thing or not so as to provide evidence of what he is. The creation of doubt is an indicator that Nick is an unreliable narrator since the reader is allowed to imagine different outcomes without a hint of which event is true and which is false. Therefore, according to Boyle the reliability of Nick is dependent on the reader. His words and actions aren't contradicted by the words and actions of others yet. And like in the article, we may not find out Nick is unreliable until the end.

Works Cited

Will, Barbara. "" The Great Gatsby" and the Obscene Word." College Literature (2005): 125- 144.

Kerr, Frances. "Feeling" Half Feminine": Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in The Great Gatsby." American Literature 68.2 (1996): 405-431.

Hanzo, Thomas A. "The Theme and the Narrator of" The Great Gatsby"." Modern Fiction Studies (1956): 183-190.

MacKendrick, Paul L. "The Great Gatsby and Trimalchio." The Classical Journal 45.7 (1950): 307-314.

Wolfsdorf, Adam. "Mourning and Melancholia in The Great Gatsby." The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 17.1 (2019): 233-247.

Boyle, Thomas E. "Unreliable Narration in The Great Gatsby." Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 23.1 (1969): 21-26.

Quality of Articles16

Levels of Achievement:

Novice 18 (30.00%) - 20 (33.33333%)

Competent 13 (21.66666%) - 17 (28.33333%)

Proficient 1 (1.66666%) - 12 (20.00%)

New Column4 0 (0.00%) - 0 (0.00%)

Argument Summaries11

Levels of Achievement:

Novice 14 (23.33333%) - 15 (25.00%)

Competent 6 (10.00%) - 13 (21.66666%)

Proficient 1 (1.66666%) - 5 (8.33333%)

New Column4 0 (0.00%) - 0 (0.00%)

Evaluation6

Levels of Achievement:

Novice 7 (11.66666%) - 7 (11.66666%)

Competent 4 (6.66666%) - 6 (10.00%)

Proficient 1 (1.66666%) - 3 (5.00%)

New Column4 0 (0.00%) - 0 (0.00%)

Grammar and Mechanics4

Levels of Achievement:

Novice 8 (13.33333%) - 10 (16.66666%)

Competent 5 (8.33333%) - 7 (11.66666%)

Proficient 1 (1.66666%) - 4 (6.66666%)

New Column4 0 (0.00%) - 0 (0.00%)

Documentation6

Levels of Achievement:

Novice 7 (11.66666%) - 8 (13.33333%)

Competent 5 (8.33333%) - 6 (10.00%)

Proficient 1 (1.66666%) - 4 (6.66666%)

New Column4 0 (0.00%) - 0 (0.00%)

Raw Total: 43.00 (of 60)

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Annotated Bibliography Grading Rubric

Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Content 70%

Advanced

Proficient

Developing

Not Present

Quality of Articles

18 to 20 points

Has 6 professional articles from a broad range of dates and a variety of critical approaches

13 to 17 points

Has 6 professional articles; date range might be a little narrow or have little variety of critical approaches

1 to 12 points

Either fewer than 6 professional articles (but more than 3), very limited date range, or no variety in critical approaches

0 points

3 or fewer professional articles

Argument Summaries

14 to 15 points

Thorough and sophisticated summaries; helpfully and clearly lay out the articles’ arguments

6 to 13 points

Good summaries of articles and evaluation; one or two summaries might be a little short or a little unclear

1 to 5 points

One of the following: missing a summary of one or more of the articles; most summaries are too short; three or more summaries are unclear

0 points

Missing or confusing summaries

Evaluation

7 to 7 points

Incisive evaluation of all articles explaining how they might contribute to final research paper product

4 to 6 points

Good evaluation of most articles (might miss one) that gestures toward how article might contribute to final research product

1 to 3 points

One of the following: missing three or more evaluations of articles; unclear or confusing evaluation; little to nothing to say about how articles might contribute to final research product

0 points

No evaluations included

Criteria

Levels of Achievement

Structure 30%

Advanced

Proficient

Developing

Not Present

Grammar and Mechanics

8 to 10 points

Rare grammar errors or stylistic flaws

5 to 7 points

Some minor grammar issues

1 to 4 points

A range from minor grammar errors that occur throughout paper to major errors (score depends on level of grammar errors present)

0 points

Egregious grammar errors that mar most sentences

Documentation

7 to 8 points

Perfectly cited material (both in-text documentation and bibliography entry)

5 to 6 points

Mostly correct citations (in-text documentation and bibliography entry); may have some minor errors

1 to 4 points

Poor citations (citations are attempted, but major errors in either punctuation or format)

0 points

No documentation (in-text citations or bibliography)

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