The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby shows the Jazz Age with its wealth, pleasure, and excess. It is about Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire driven by money, ambition, greed, and hope for new beginnings. His rise and fall offer a warning about the American Dream. The story also follows his love for Daisy Buchanan, who married Tom Buchanan while Gatsby served overseas. Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits. Nick Carraway, a detached, cynical neighbor, observes events unfold tragically.

Why You Should Read?

• Explore the Jazz Age through its decadence, excess, money, ambition, and greed.
• Follow Jay Gatsby as he pursues wealth and Daisy Buchanan with obsessive devotion.
• Meet Nick Carraway, the detached, cynical neighbor who observes Gatsby's tragic story.
• Understand the warning about the American Dream through Gatsby's rise and fall.

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a middle-class family and grew up in New York state. He was an American writer of novels, essays and short stories, best known for fiction showing Jazz Age glamour and excess. He helped spread that label in Tales of the Jazz Age. He wrote 164 short stories, four story collections and four novels. The 1920s brought him brief money and success, but praise came only after his death. He is now regarded as among the finest American writers of the twentieth century.