Abstract
Today universities have been faced with a harsh condemnation of being reduced to a means for getting a job. Nevertheless, their aim of existence is to educate the youth as mature members of a community. Then by what could they educate the understanding of human beings and the world? This paper tries to find out the motive in literature. That is because literary works could make learners expose various aspects of life and reconsider their solutions by reproducing the general lives of people. In this context, this paper seeks to examine the point of contact with current issues like economic inequality and racial discrimination in the process of understanding the roaring twenties’ historical backdrop based on The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald. While learners concern for the major characters’ storytelling and ruminate social problems that they have also faced today, they can empathize with others’ pain by extending their attention from personal life to community. This has led our society to be in progress gradually but positively. It is the basic role of literature.
| Translated title of the contribution | English Literature Course and The Great Gatsby's Storytelling -Reading the Current Issues Traversing Past- |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 75-95 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | 스토리앤이미지텔링 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| State | Published - Dec 2017 |