The Great Gatsby is cited as one of the finest pieces of American literature; the quintessential novel of theAmerican Dream. This is a story of a young self- made millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his attempts to reunite with his former lover, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Through the myriad characters of the fictional East Egg and West Egg of Long Island, F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus captures and paints the decadence, idealism, social upheaval and excesses experienced by the jazz age of the 'Roaring Twenties' in America.
The Great Gatsby is cited as one of the finest pieces of American literature; the quintessential novel of theAmerican Dream. This is a story of a young self- made millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his attempts to reunite with his former lover, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Through the myriad characters of the fictional East Egg and West Egg of Long Island, F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus captures and paints the decadence, idealism, social upheaval and excesses experienced by the jazz age of the 'Roaring Twenties' in America.