The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the summer of 1922 during the height of the Roaring Twenties and the Prohibition era, the story explores themes of wealth, class, love, materialism, and the corruption of the American Dream. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran who moves to New York and becomes entangled in the l…
The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young World War I veteran from the Midwest who moves to West Egg, Long Island, to work in the bond business. Nick rents a modest house right next door to Jay Gatsby, a fabulously wealthy, mysterious man famous for throwing extravagant, glamorous weekend parties attended by hundreds of high-society socialites, despite no one actually knowing who he is or…