The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925, is a landmark novel of American literature set in the Jazz Age of the early 1920s, specifically the summer of 1922 on Long Island near New York City. Narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who moves east to work in the bond business, the story centers on the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsessive pursuit to recapture his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, now married to the wealthy but brutish Tom Buchanan. Drawing from Fitzgerald's own experiences with high-society parties and his youthful romance, the novel vividly captures the era's prosperity, excess, and Prohibition-fueled glamour while offering a sharp critique of the American Dream, exposing its hollowness through themes of class division, materialism, moral decay, and the illusion of reinvention. Though it received mixed reviews and modest sales upon release, The Great Gatsby has since become a defining classic, celebrated for its lyrical prose, symbolic depth, and enduring commentary on ambition and disillusionment in modern America.
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