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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Since the 1920s, numerous authors, such as Sinclair Lewis in his 1922 novel Babbitt, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his 1925 classic, The Great Gatsby, satirized or ridiculed materialism in the chase for the American dream. For example, Jay Gatsby's death mirrors the American Dream's demise, reflecting the pessimism of modern-day Americans. [45]
In the Fitzgerald canon, the story is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster" as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The Great Gatsby in 1925. [1] Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea." [4]
It's probably no coincidence that Hollywood has decided to turn F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 classic, The Great Gatsby, into a new movie (released Friday). The book famously depicts the lavish ...
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letter to Laura Guthrie, 1935 Years later, while drafting The Great Gatsby, rumors dogged Fitzgerald among the American expat community in Paris that he was gay. Soon after, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre likewise doubted his heterosexuality and asserted that he was a closeted homosexual. She belittled him with homophobic slurs, and she alleged that Fitzgerald and Ernest ...
She has written and presented Radio 4 documentaries on Henry James, the American Dream and America First, [7] The Great Gatsby, When Harry Met Sally, and Radio 3 essays on Screen Goddesses (2017) and Screen Gods (2019). Churchwell was a judge for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, [8] the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, and the 2019 Sunday Times Short ...
The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted poet T. S. Eliot to opine that the novel was the most significant evolution in American fiction since the works of Henry James. [329] Charles Jackson , author of The Lost Weekend , wrote that Gatsby was the only flawless novel in the history of American literature. [ 411 ]
13 stories and 7 essays, with individual editorial notes: Internet Archive: Poems 1911–1940: S.C.: Bruccoli Clark, 1981: 25 poems: Novels and Stories 1920–1922: Library of America, 2000: This Side of Paradise; Flappers and Philosophers; The Beautiful and Damned; Tales of the Jazz Age: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings ...