The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, the story is set in Long Island's North Shore, in the fictional regions of East and West Egg along with New York City during the summer of 1922. The novel is introduced by first-person narrator Nick Carraway and the main character of Gatsby is not properly introduced until the 3rd chapter, which in a book of only 11 chapters is a very long time to wait. This wait to reveal the main character is a possible explanation of the title itself, The Great Gatsby, being a very mystical title for a character, very much like an early 20th Century Magician may have ...  Read the complete review

The Great Gatsby is an outstanding novel with characters that are carved to stir emotions within the reader. F. Scott Fitzgerald compels the reader with excellently crafted characters; their actions and thoughts leave one edging for more at the conclusion of the book. F. Scott Fitzgerald provides us with the most loathsome characters in the novel. People that she has built and marvelled to essential stir the emotion of envy and hatred within us. For instance Tom and Daisy are morally dry, they lack the consideration for others but only seek the anxiety for their own preservation. Alternatively there is Gatsby, along with a character known as Wilson; Gatsby is a ...  Read the complete review

The Great Gatsby is a great American novel. So much so that it has almost become part of the American identity, and Jay Gatsby a character that is both idolised and scorned. It is a novel that stirs passions in its readers and produces reactions at both ends of the emotive spectrum. But no one who has read The Great Gatsby forgets it. The book is narrated by Nick Carraway, a privileged young man with an good education, a trusting heart and an open mind. Nick is yearning for all the adventure and experience to be had in the American 'jazz age', the 'roaring twenties'. Nick leaves the mid-west and rents himself a house in upstate, wealthy New ...  Read the complete review

Still his most celebrated work, The Great Gatsby is the novel that first propelled F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame. Synopsis Set in 1920's New York, the novel centres on the illusive and intriguing character of Jay Gatsby. Seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the texts narrator, Gatsby initially embodies the lavish excitement of Jazz Age America. As the novel progresses, Fitzgerald explores the disintegration and dissolution of the American Dream, through the plight of Gatsby. Pining for the love of his teenage sweetheart, Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby dedicates every aspect of his life to winning her back. The zeal with which he ...  Read the complete review

The Great Gatsby is the classic novel about the American Dream, one of the great novels of the 20th Century as it captures perfectly the culture and mindset of the dominant power of that century. It was first published in 1925 during the first stock-market boom, the era when modern conspicuous consumption culture made it's debut, and the themes it discusses still resonate. The Author F Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896, went to Princeton and married a wild socialite Zelda Sayre, with whom he embarked on a life of crazy extravagance. He was one of a group of writers (others being Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson and John Cheever) who were ...  Read the complete review