Title: 
Headings: 
Dialectical
 
Journal:
 
The
 
Great
 
Gatsby
 
by
 
F.
 
Scott
 
Fitzgerald
 

Expectations:
 

Dates:
 

Category
 
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Chapter
 
1
 
Example:
 

Literary
 
Criticism
 


Content: Feminist
 
Criticism
 
-
 
focuses
 
on
 
judging
 
the
 
work
 
by
 
asking
 
if
 
the
 
author
 
uses
 
female
 
characters
 
to
 
portray
 
male
 
fears
 
and
 
anxieties
 
rather
 
than
 
depicting
 
female
 
characters
 
as
 
complex,
 
independent,
 
autonomous
 
beings. Ask
 
if
 
the
 
work
 
employs
 
female
 
characters
 
solely
 
as
 
devices
 
to
 
further
 
the
 
development
 
of
 
male
 
characters. Does
 
the
 
author
 
fail
 
to
 
imagine
 
the
 
face
 
of
 
their
 
female
 
characters? The
 
goal
 
is
 
not
 
only
 
to
 
present
 
positive
 
images
 
of
 
women,
 
but
 
to
 
present
 
believable
 
and
 
complex
 
characters
 
that
 
seem
 
realistically
 
flawed
 
and
 
understandable. As
 
a
 
feminist
 
critic,
 
you
 
will
 
find
 
areas
 
in
 
the
 
text
 
that
 
answer
 
these
 
questions
 
and
 
work
 
to
 
expose
 
stereotypes
 
or
 
applaud
 
the
 
author’s
 
representation
 
of
 
female
 
characters
 
as
 
real
 
and
 
believable. Problems
 
with
 
this
 
criticism
 
-
 
many
 
criticize
 
it
 
as
 
too
 
narrow
 
in
 
evaluating
 
literature
 
-
 
that
 
there
 
are
 
more
 
profound
 
differences
 
in
 
individuals
 
as
 
a
 
generalized
 
difference
 
of
 
men
 
and
 
women,
 
which
 
leads
 
to
 
the
 
danger
 
of
 
absolutes. Formalist
 
Criticism
 
-
 
focuses
 
on
 
close
 
reading
 
of
 
the
 
writer’s
 
craft
 
and
 
careful
 
analysis
 
to
 
take
 
apart
 
a
 
text
 
to
 
see
 
how
 
it
 
works. The
 
reader
 
focuses