The Great Gatsby

 Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Year: 1925

Genre: Novel, Tragedy, Literary Fiction

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel tells the story of a young man, Jay Gatsby, as he pursuit of the American Dream. Through the novel, Fitzgerald critiques the upper class of American society during the 1920s. The novel has been adapted for film and stage several times.

Jay Gatsby is born James Gatz to a poor farming family in North Dakota. He falls in love with the wealthy Daisy Buchanan while serving in the army during World War I. After the war, Gatsby moves to West Egg on Long Island, where he becomes a wealthy man through dubious business dealings. Gatsby throws lavish parties in the hopes that Daisy will attend one and they can rekindle their relationship.

The novel has been praised for its depiction of the Jazz Age and for its criticism of the American Dream. The novel is set in 1922, and it chronicles the events of one summer in the lives of its characters. The novel is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota who has just moved to New York.

The story follows Nick Carraway, an observer from the upper-class New York society scene who finds himself drawn into the lives of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan—two people who seem to have everything they want but are missing something important: love.

Carraway's narration is engaging because it feels like you're getting insight into what it's like to be an observer rather than just reading about events happening around him; however, while this might make things more interesting for some readers, others may find themselves frustrated by how much time is spent on description rather than action or dialogue.

Themes of The Great Gatsby include love, betrayal, and the American dream. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s love for Daisy to illustrate the dangers of being fixated on material objects. Gatsby’s quest for Daisy represents the hollowness of the American dream. The novel highlights the disparity between the rich and the poor in 1920s America.

The novel has been praised for its use of language. Fitzgerald was a master of using dialect and regionalism to create believable characters. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby speak with different accents and use different regionalisms. This makes the novel more believable and realistic.