F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless novel, The Great Gatsby, celebrates its centennial, highlighting its enduring impact on American literature. The story, narrated by Nick Carraway, follows the life of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire entangled in a tragic love for Daisy Buchanan amidst the backdrop of wealth and moral decay in the 1920s. Gatsby symbolizes the essence of the American Dream, yet his fate questions the attainability of that dream. Through various adaptations and cultural references, the novel’s themes of love, loss, and anxiety about identity continue to resonate with contemporary audiences.
A century after its publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald's slender novel about a mysterious, lovelorn millionaire living and dying in a Long Island mansion is among the most widely read American fictions.
Gatsby winds up dead, shot by the wrong jealous husband, and Nick is left to ruminate on the meaning of his friend's sad, perplexing and somehow quintessentially American life.
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