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  1. Jan 14, 2019 · The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, presents a critical portrait of the American dream through its portrayal of the 1920s New York elite.By exploring themes of wealth, class, love and idealism, The Great Gatsby raises powerful questions about American ideas and society.

  2. The Great Gatsby, novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. Set in 1920s New York, the book is narrated by Nick Carraway. After moving to the fictional West Egg on Long Island ...

  3. The Great Gatsby Summary. In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves from Minnesota to work as a bond salesman in New York. Nick rents a house in West Egg, a suburb of New York on Long Island full of the "new rich" who have made their fortunes too recently to have built strong social connections. Nick graduated from Yale and has connections in ...

  4. Tại Miền Nam Việt Nam, The Great Gatsby được dịch giả Mặc Đỗ dịch với nhan đề là Con người Hào hoa, xuất bản lần đầu năm 1956, sau này được tái bản nhiều lần ở Sài Gòn. Ở Miền Bắc, tác phẩm đã được Hoàng Cường dịch sang tiếng Việt với nhan đề Gatsby vĩ ...

  5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925 in New York City. It is considered to be Fitzgerald’s best and most famous novel. It depicts the lives of characters entangled in the New York City social scene, in dangerous love affairs, and endless wealth. Narrated by Nick Carraway, a man whose life mirrored Fitzgerald’s own ...

  6. The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed ...

  7. Mar 30, 2021 · The Great Gatsby is the quintessential Jazz Age novel, capturing a mood and a moment in American history in the 1920s, after the end of the First World War. Rather surprisingly, The Great Gatsby sold no more than 25,000 copies in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lifetime. It has now sold over 25 million copies. If Fitzgerald had stuck with one of the ...

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