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Today we will discuss the Themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.
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The Great Gatsby at a Glance
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society.
Written by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Type of Work: novel
Genres: social commentary; American fiction; Jazz Age
First Published: 1925
Setting: 1920s in West Egg (Newly Rich), Long Island (East Egg-Aristocratic)
About the Title
The title, The Great Gatsby, acknowledges Gatsby's great wealth and local celebrity but hints at the verbal irony that much of Gatsby's "greatness" is phony.
Main Characters: Nick Carraway; Jay Gatsby; Daisy Buchanan
Major Thematic Topics: decline of the 1920s; social issues; prohibition; displaced spirituality
Motifs: weather; geography; types of money
Major Symbols: eyes; Gatsby's parties, Gatsby’s car
Movie Versions: The Great Gatsby (1974); The Great Gatsby (2000); The Great Gatsby (2013)
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