Tabs & Twists
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway watches his mysterious millionaire neighbor chase a lost love in the glittering, hollow world of the Jazz Age.
- Subgenre
- Romantic dramaSocial realism
- Setting / Period
- Jazz Age America
- First published
- 1925
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
Review
Nick Carraway moves to Long Island and finds himself next door to Jay Gatsby, whose parties are legendary and whose past is a rumor. Gatsby has built an entire fortune and persona for one purpose: to win back Daisy Buchanan.
In under two hundred pages Fitzgerald says more about the American dream than most doorstoppers manage. The prose is gorgeous, the symbols (the green light, the valley of ashes) are famous for good reason, and the ending still lands like a quiet punch.
It is a book about longing and about the lie that you can repeat the past. Gatsby is both ridiculous and heartbreaking, which is exactly why readers keep returning to him.
