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Critical Response 1: The Great Gatsby & The Crowd
Choose a specific topic and discuss how it is treated in both the film and the novel. Use direct quotations from the novel and specific examples from the film.

Suggestions for topics: - individuality - the characters' values & where they get them - romantic love- marriage - the symbol of the clown in The Crowd and an equivalent symbol in Gatsby

 
Critical Response 2: The Great Gatsby & the MFA
From the MFA trip, choose a painting, print, or scultpure that expresses a theme, idea, belief, or characteristic in The Great Gatsby. Give an analysis of the artwork that explains how it says something similar to an aspect of Gatsby.
   
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