The Great Gatsby

E11807

The Great Gatsby is a classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamour and disillusionment of the American Jazz Age through the tragic story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream.


Statements (60)
Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novel
adaptedAs The Great Gatsby (1926 film)
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby (1974 film)
The Great Gatsby (2000 film)
The Great Gatsby (2013 film)
opera adaptation
radio adaptation
stage adaptation
antagonist Tom Buchanan
author F. Scott Fitzgerald
countryOfOrigin United States
firstEditionFormat hardcover
followedBy Tender Is the Night
genre Jazz Age novel
modernist literature
novel of manners
social novel
tragedy
hasCharacter George Wilson
Meyer Wolfsheim
Owl Eyes
hasSymbol Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's eyes
Valley of Ashes
green light
includedIn American literary canon
literaryMovement Modernism
literarySignificance considered one of the greatest American novels
mainCharacter Daisy Buchanan
Jay Gatsby
Jordan Baker
Myrtle Wilson
Nick Carraway
Tom Buchanan
narrator Nick Carraway
originalLanguage English
pageCount 218 (approximate, first edition)
placeOfFirstPublication New York City
precededBy The Beautiful and Damned
protagonist Jay Gatsby
publicationDate 1925
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
setInLocation East Egg
Long Island
New York City
West Egg
setInPeriod Jazz Age
Roaring Twenties
setInYear 1922
taughtIn high school literature courses
university literature courses
theme American Dream
disillusionment
illusion versus reality
love and obsession
moral decay
social stratification
wealth and class
titleOrigin refers to protagonist Jay Gatsby

Referenced by (46)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Daisy Buchanan
East Egg
George Wilson
Jay Gatsby
Jordan Baker
Meyer Wolfsheim
Myrtle Wilson
Nick Carraway
Plaza Hotel ("The Great Gatsby (novel setting reference)")
Tom Buchanan
Valley of Ashes
West Egg
appearsIn
Daisy Buchanan
East Egg ("The Great Gatsby (1925)")
George Wilson ("The Great Gatsby, Chapter 2")
Jordan Baker
Meyer Wolfsheim
Myrtle Wilson ("The Great Gatsby, Chapter 2")
Owl Eyes
Tom Buchanan
firstAppearance
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) ("The Great Gatsby (novel)")
The Great Gatsby (1974 film) ("The Great Gatsby (novel)")
The Great Gatsby (2000 film)
The Great Gatsby (2013 film) ("The Great Gatsby (novel)")
The Great Gatsby (opera)
basedOn
American literature
Lost Generation
hasNotableWork
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leonardo DiCaprio
notableWork
The Great Gatsby (2000 film) ("The Great Gatsby (novel)")
adaptationOf
The Great Gatsby ("The Great Gatsby (1926 film)")
adaptedAs
Owl Eyes
appearsInWork
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
associatedWith
Myrtle Wilson
diesIn
Daisy Buchanan ("The Great Gatsby universe")
fictionalUniverse
Nick Carraway
firstPublicationIn
The Beautiful and Damned
followedBy
All the Sad Young Men
followsWork
Time 100 best English-language novels list
hasWork
North Shore of Long Island
inspiredWork
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park ("novel "The Great Gatsby" (as ash heaps inspiration)")
mentionedInWork
Nick Carraway
narratesEventsOf
Charles Scribner's Sons
notableWorkPublished
East Egg ("The Great Gatsby universe")
partOfFictionalUniverse
Tender Is the Night
precededBy
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
title

Please wait…