This idea is an updated version of the resource remixed from the original below.  While the list below contains wonderful resources, learners may have a "Great Gatsby" connection in their own mind.  Researching, finding, comparing and contrasting their own choice with specific passages/text/etc. to support their finding allows for contextual revelations of the American Classic in today's modern world. Biographies, fictional text, current movies, or youtube resources may allow for the modern example to emerge.  

This source is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

What follows here is a list of often overlooked films, novels, and short stories that could be taught in addition to or in conjunction with Fitzgerald's novel in order to provide more context for the novel as a modern United States novel or to further examine its themes and commentary as they relate to the proverbial American Dream. Many of these films and novels would benefit students in their exploration of themes related to modernity, poverty and wealth, modern romance, wealth and power, class and power in modern Democracies, etc. After all, Fitzgerald was not singular in his discussion of these themes and topics and was, at times, even mimicking (or remixing) his predecessors and contemporaries. 

Ultimately, the list offers source materials that may allow for Fitzgerald's text to be viewed from a new angle. The list could also be given to students as a way for them to explore the novel through a variety of new lenses. 

Additionally, the lesson is optimized if the learners are allowed to find their own modern day "Great Gatsby" character, song, poem, etc.  The explanation and comparison to Fitzgerald's classic, will truly expose whether the learner has connected to the deeper meanings of the literature.

Supplemental materials

-Sherwood Anderson's short story "Sophistication" from Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

-Frank Capra's film It Happened One Night (1934)

-Gregory La Cava's film My Man Godfrey (1936)

-Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! (1913)

-Charlie Chaplin's film City Lights (1931)

-Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times (1936) 

-John Dos Passos' novel The 42nd Parallel (1930)

-Ernest Hemingway's novella In Our Time (1925), specifically the Nick Adams stories culminating in "The Big Two-Hearted River"

-Howard Hawks' film Scarface (1932)

-Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)

-Ernst Lubitsch's film Trouble in Paradise (1932)

-Steve Martin's film The Jerk (1979)

-Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses (1992)

-Claude McKay's novel Home to Harlem (1928)

-Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) 

-Rihanna's song "We Found Love" (2011) 

-Preston Sturges' film Sullivan's Travels (1941)

-Bruce Springsteen's song "Thunder Road" (1975)

-Bruce Springsteen's album Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

-Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876)

-Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

-Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane (1941)

-Orson Welles' film The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)