The Great Gatsby is a contender to be a novel of high cinematic merit.
 In a 2012 BBC Radio 4 broadcast, The Great Gatsby took the form of a Classic Serial dramatization
 According to his friend John Peale Bishop, Fitzgerald further resented the fact that critics failed to perceive the many parallels between the author's life and the character of Jay Gatsby; in particular, that both created a mythical version of themselves and attempted to live up to this legend

