The Great Gatsby

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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.

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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 of America
surface form: 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 Eye of Providence
surface form: 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 Roaring Twenties
surface form: 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

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