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  2. The Great Gatsby is a novel about America in the 1920s. Many readers consider The Great Gatsby as a 20th-century tragedy. If we can understand what a classical tragedy entails, then we can extrapolate this into its modern equivalent.

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  3. The Great Gatsby can be considered a tragedy in that it revolves around a larger-than-life hero whose pursuit of an impossible goal blinds him to reality and leads to his violent death.

  4. Tragedy. In the past (particularly in the Greek and Roman Classical period, and in the Age of Shakespeare), tragedies often present the fall of high-status characters: for example, Kings, Emperors, Princes or Generals.

  5. The Great Gatsby is a novel about 1920s America. Many readers consider The Great Gatsby as a 20th-century tragedy. If we can understand what a classical tragedy entails, then we can extrapolate this into its modern equivalent. The Great Gatsby is sometimes considered a Realist novel due to its realistic depiction of the

  6. 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.

  7. Mar 30, 2021 · In the last analysis, The Great Gatsby sums up the Jazz Age, but through offering a tragedy, Fitzgerald shows that the American dream is founded on ashes – both the industrial dirt and toil of millions of Americans for whom the dream will never materialise, and the ashes of dead love affairs which Gatsby, for all of his quasi-magical ...

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