Fall 2026 OLLI Digital Catalog

GATSBY FOR GROWN-UPS (H382)

H – Literature

Everyone read The Great Gatsby in high school, but how many have re-read it with the benefit of decades of life experience? We’ll undertake a “close reading” of Fitzgerald’s novel, asking questions that might not have occurred to us back in high school. We’ll also read and discuss some of Fitzgerald’s short stories that explore the “before” and “after” of the characters (albeit with different names) and some scholarly articles about the novel.

This offering meets for a total of 11 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Paul Huey-Burns

HUEY-BURNS, PAUL — J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A., philosophy and humanities, Johns Hopkins; M.A., literary studies, Notre Dame of Maryland University. Recently retired from a career teaching English at an independent secondary school in Potomac, Maryland. Prior to his teaching career, practiced corporate and securities law in Washington, D.C. for almost four decades, both in a senior position in the federal government and as a partner in several global law firms.

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