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Nov 16, 2018 · While The Great Gatsby captures the exuberance of the 1920s, it’s ultimately a portrayal of the darker side of the era, and a pointed criticism of the corruption and immorality lurking...
- Sarah Pruitt
- 2 min
Nov 3, 2023 · Set against the resplendent backdrop of the 1920s, this cinematic masterpiece transports audiences to a world of dazzling excess, where champagne flows like a river, and dreams shimmer in the...
Sep 15, 2019 · The Great Gatsby was first, and foremost, a reflection of Fitzgerald's life. He put pieces of himself into two of the book's major characters —Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire and namesake of the novel, and Nick Carraway, the first-person narrator.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1925
May 23, 2014 · Because of the generational differences and having never watched the movie at the time, I missed a crucial bit of information: What the “Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg” meant. I figured that it was some vague cultural reference, valid only to the 1920s, and unimportant to the plot.
Nov 17, 2018 · The Great Gatsby tells the tale of a writer and wall street trader named Nick Carraway, who finds himself drawn to the past and luxurious lifestyle of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Baz Luhrmann,...
- Madeline Novak
Apr 10, 2015 · The ad attributes the praise to H.L. Mencken: the same critic who had dismissed Gatsby, overall, as not just inferior to Fitzgerald's other works, but also as an "obviously unimportant" story in...
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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.
