Winter Read 2024 Discussion Group
As part of the 2024 Winter Read, The Community Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson, will lead a four-week discussion series on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, paired with Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The group will meet over four Wednesdays in February, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Library’s Lecture Hall.
Both The Great Gatsby and Mrs. Dalloway were published in 1925, in the wake of World War I and a global influenza pandemic. Both novels center on social festivities – parties! – in a way that might seem surprising in the wake of such catastrophic events. How do parties matter in these novels? How are the characters imagining dreams for the future? We’ll talk about a wide range of themes and ideas that the novels raise.
- Wednesday, February 7: The Great Gatsby, chapters 1-3
- Wednesday, February 14: The Great Gatsby, chapter 4-the end
- Wednesday, February 21: Mrs. Dalloway, pages 1-50
- Wednesday, February 28: Mrs. Dalloway, pages 51-the end
Please register in advance to receive email updates about the discussions!
Contact Jenny if you have questions: jdavidson@comlib.org.
