Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896 and dead in 1940. Through Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man with fabulous parties, he explores social climbing, the illusion of happiness, and the impossibility of buying back the past.
The novel is a requiem for the American Dream. That idea holds that in the United States anyone can succeed on merit and hard work alone. Behind the gilding of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald shows a deep moral rot. Money buys the show, but not redemption.
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- 2Fitzgerald and the double edge of the Roaring Twenties
- 3Gatsby, or the invention of the self
- 4Nick Carraway and the eye of the witness
- 5Memory, legacy, and the fading of the dream
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
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