The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel about Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire whose obsessive pursuit of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, drives the narrative through the glittering but morally hollow world of 1920s New York. The novella examines the American Dream through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a bonds trader drawn into Gatsby's circle of wealth and excess.

Told through carefully controlled prose, Fitzgerald captures the era's contradictions: wealth alongside emptiness, sophistication alongside corruption, love alongside illusion. The novel's exploration of class, aspiration, and the past's inescapable grip has made it a cornerstone of American literature. Its influence on subsequent fiction, film, and cultural thought remains substantial nearly a century after publication.

The narrative arc builds from mysterious gatherings at Gatsby's mansion to a climactic moment that exposes the fragility beneath the era's surface. Readers encounter vivid characters - Daisy, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker - whose actions and choices reveal the period's social codes and moral bankruptcy.

• Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Originally published: 1925
• Genre: Literary fiction
• Setting: Jazz Age New York
• Narrative perspective: First-person (Nick Carraway)

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