Episode I: Tony Soprano, Jay Gatsby, and the American Dream

Part I

• Video: Tony Soprano “The Best is Over”

• Pre-War Car Advertisements

• Article: The Sopranos and Modern American Life

Part II

• Text: The Great Gatsby

• Essay: Steinbrink, “‘Boats Against the Current’: Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby”

Music

• Chopin - Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
• Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15: II Adagio