English & Literature
Intertextual references in The Great Gatsby? How does Fitzgerald allude to Wordsworth?
I have to list some allusions to other literary works, as you can see below. My main problem is that I don't really see the connection between Fitzgerald and Wordsworth, but I do get that both share the same romantic sense for the past, especially when Jay is like "of course you can repeat the past"...
- the Bible
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
- Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose...", there's a passage in which Daisy repeats the word "rose" three times)
- Thomas Park D'Invillier is made-up and a character in Fitzgerald's first novel
- Byronic Hero (Gatsby is similar to the protagonists of Lord Byron's novels)
- Midas, Morgan and Maecenas
- Stoddard lectures