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Discussing 'Gatsby': Money, happiness, and metaphors of consumer culture

Can money buy happiness? The question, posed to hundreds of freshmen, was provoked by Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece

Duration: 01:22:52

Discussing 'Gatsby': Money, happiness, and metaphors of consumer culture

Can money buy happiness? The question, posed to hundreds of freshmen, was provoked by Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece

Provost Biddy Martin moderates a panel discussion about "The Great Gatsby" in Barton Hall with incoming students and the following Cornell faculty members:

  • Douglas Mao, Associate Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Amy Villarejo, Associate Professor of Film in the College or Arts and Sciences and Director of the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program; and
  • Robert Frank, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics in the Johnson Graduate School of Management
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