The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925, is a novel set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s. It follows Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island and becomes entangled in the lives of his mysterious and wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby, and his cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, is in love with Daisy, who is married to the wealthy but morally corrupt Tom Buchanan. The novel explores themes of the American Dream, class stratification, illusion versus reality, moral decay, and the unattainability of the past. Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream leads to his downfall, exposing the moral and social decay beneath the glittering surface of the Jazz Age.