F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece inspired myriad writers, including Cornell Woolrich. A decade before the first masters of noir (James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and Faulkner’s Sanctuary), The Great Gatsby offered the first, true anti-hero of modern noir. But this aspect of the novel was always hidden to critics, and cinema…Today, Adrian Wootton reveals it.