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THE GREAT GATSBY . 4. twelve or fifteen thousand a season. the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. it was Gatsby’s ...
The publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, made Fitzgerald a literary star. He married Zelda one week later. In 1924, the couple moved to Paris, where Fitzgerald began work on The Great Gatsby. Though now considered his masterpiece, the novel sold only modestly. The Fitzgeralds returned to the United States in 1927.
The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed ...
Yale graduate Nick Caraway returns from World War I and becomes a bond salesman, moving to a Long Island suburb called West Egg and renting a small house beside a mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. West Egg is full of newly rich people, but East Egg—across the bay—is where the "old rich" live. After dinner with his cousin Daisy in ...
A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear. The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether. "This Mr. Gatsby you spoke of is my neighbor—" I said. "Don't talk.
May 27, 2003 · The Great Gatsby. : F. Scott Fitzgerald. Simon and Schuster, May 27, 2003 - Fiction - 165 pages. The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher. This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a ...
The Great Gatsby Themes Wealth . Wealth is one of the most important themes Fitzgerald’s characters contend with within The Great Gatsby. Specifically, he draws a contrast between the aristocracy, those with old money like Daisy and Tom, and those with new money, like Gatsby. They live different lives and consider one another in different lights.
