Patti White presents the guest list in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a paradigm for her study of systems theory and narrative structure. White alternates chapters of theoretical explication of the systemic nature of narrative structure and of the process of structuration as a whole. Focusing on Don DeLillo's White Noise, John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, White discusses the role of systemic operations, pattern recognition, list construction, and discourse formation within a context of literary interpretation....