JAY GATSBY : BLOOM’S MAJOR LITERARY CHARACTERS BY HAROLD BLOOM (PAPERBACK) OLD BOOK

In Jay Gatsby (part of the Bloom’s Major Literary Characters series), legendary critic Harold Bloom compiles critical analyses that define Fitzgerald’s protagonist as a quintessential Romantic hero. Gatsby is presented as a tragic, larger-than-life figure driven by an idealized, almost religious devotion to the past and the American Dream. [1, 2, 3]