The Narrator of" Brighton Rock" by G.A. Wilkes

Worth reading as you work your way into the novel. Wilkes makes intriguing points on the viewpoint of the narrator and changes in subsequent publications of this novel.

http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSE/article/viewFile/498/470

The Great Gatsby - Cultural Context

Excellent for getting to grips with this quickly.

http://www.mrcoia.com/school/units/gatsby/gatsby_pres.htm

The Great Gatsby - Study Guides and Resources

A one page study guide!

http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/grgatsb.html

A homework study guide:

http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/index.html

An essay on symbolism in The Great Gatsby (worth reading!)

https://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html

The Great Gatsby study links:

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000730.shtml

Novel reflections on "The American Dream" from PBS. See the video and how Gatsby is gradually introduced as a "man of mystery" by Nick Carraway.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/video/ANgreatgatsby.html

More generally, "The American Dream":

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/video/ANamericandream.html

AS Study Guides for "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene

This is an excellent study aid. But remember to analyse the text yourself before referring to it as you need to develop your own critical faculties.

http://www.eriding.net/amoore/prose/brighton.htm

Here's the same guide but in a different format.

http://www.eriding.net/resources/english/040107_amoore_eng_ks5_y12-13_brightonrock.rtf.

Visual Grammar

http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/visual_grammar.swf