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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.
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. [5]
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in Metropolitan magazine in December 1922 and collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. [1] The plot concerns the attempts by a young Midwestern man to win the affection of an upper-class socialite.
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
The Great Gatsby. Smith first read The Great Gatsby as a high school student, but he did not fully understand it at the time. [2] In 2014, after living in Europe, Smith reread the novel for the first time in several years. [5] He came to identify with its narrator Nick Carraway and was drawn to Carraway's sense of detachment. [2]
Daisy realizes that Gatsby's romanticization of her is akin to her family and Tom's treatment, and asserts her agency by demanding to drive Gatsby's signature Rolls-Royce back home ("The Dream Fought On"). Myrtle manages to escape the house and runs into the street, but is hit by the car and killed; eyewitnesses identify the Rolls-Royce.
"Young and Beautiful" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey used for the soundtrack to the drama film The Great Gatsby. Contemporary music critics lauded the single, calling it "haunting" and "somber". Lyrically, "Young and Beautiful" follows a young
Fitzgerald's characteristic theme, expressed poignantly in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, is the tendency of youth's golden dreams to dissolve in failure and disappointment. Fitzgerald also dwells on the collapse of long-held American Ideals, such as liberty, social unity, good governance and peace, features which were severely threatened by ...