Great Gatsby
Jazz Age tragedy
The Great Gatsby is F.
Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel about wealth, obsession, and the American Dream in the Jazz Age.
Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire, throws lavish parties hoping to reunite with his lost love.
The title has become shorthand for ostentatious displays of wealth or doomed romantic pursuit: He threw a Great Gatsby party for his thirtieth birthday.
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- green lightAuthorization to proceed
- mansionLarge, stately home
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
Buchanan · bootlegging · Nick · old sport · illusion · Daisy · pearls · yellow car · tragedy · American Dream · opulence · new money · Harlem Renaissance · flappers · champagne · pool · Long Island · consumerism
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath
- Classic TextsBible, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Epic of Gilgamesh
- Modern LiteratureHemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Woolf
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, The Scream, David
- Roaring Twentiesflappers, Charleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition
literary character archetype
Great GatsbyAtticus Finch
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