Manhattan Transfer Lesson Plan

Manhattan Transfer deals with many of the same themes that F. Scott Fitzgerald's work deals with, particularly his novels The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and Tender is the Night, which feature class struggle, the indifference of cultural, political, and business elites, and the fickleness of love. The work's tapestry-like narrative, which dips in and out of various characters' lives and often hops back and forward through time, resembles William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Go Down, Moses, and Absalom, Absalom! The use of multiple languages, born out of a desire to represent the new, diverse industrialized world, resembles the modernist poetry of T.S. Eliot, particularly ...