![]() It’s said that the stakes in academic disputes are low, but Williams enthusiastically shows, in the course of the film, that the geographical reference is more than a footnote-it’s a key to an apt appreciation of both Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s literary artistry. He heard gleanings of Fitzgerald’s Westport connection and eventually, after Solomon’s article appeared, joined forces with the local historian Richard (Deej) Webb to investigate further. Williams, a music-industry executive, moved to Westport in 1992 and became interested in local history. For Williams, as for Solomon, who was a Westport native, the matter was as much personal as historical. Scott Fitzgerald’s prime model for Jay Gatsby’s West Egg estate and the cottage on his property that Nick Carraway rents isn’t Great Neck, Long Island, but, rather, Westport, Connecticut. The film is rooted in the same theory that Barbara Probst Solomon (who’s the main interview subject in the film she died in 2019) put forth in a remarkable 1996 piece in The New Yorker: that F. It takes a cinematic and academic outsider to leap into the deep waters of scholarly disputes with impetuous verve, as Robert Steven Williams does in the documentary “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story” (which is streaming on Amazon). Photograph from Minnesota Historical Society / Getty Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s wild summer of 1920. A new documentary develops in poignant detail the story of F. ![]()
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