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Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman, rents a small house on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who throws enormous…
Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman, rents a small house on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who throws enormous parties every weekend. Gatsby has built his whole life around one hope: to win back Daisy Buchanan, Nick's cousin, who lives across the bay with her rich and brutal husband, and whose green dock light he watches at night.
Context and significance
Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a short, perfectly written novel about the American dream, money and the impossibility of repeating the past, and its final line is one of the most quoted in American literature. It entered the public domain in the United States in 2021.
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was born in St Paul, Minnesota, left Princeton for the army and became famous at twenty-three with his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He married the brilliant Zelda Sayre, named the Jazz Age and lived its glamour in New York and on the French Riviera.
The Great Gatsby (1925), now considered one of the greatest American novels, sold poorly in his lifetime. Zelda's illness, debts and drink darkened his later years, and he died in Hollywood at forty-four, writing film scripts and believing himself a failure.