F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Students: Please follow the link at the bottom for a free online text of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Plot Overview from Kingwood College:

(http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/greatgatsby.htm)

Nick Carraway narrates the story of Jay Gatsby, his neighbor on Long Island.  Rumors run rampant about Gatsby's accumulation of wealth and his lavish soirees.  Gatsby involves Nick in a scheme to reveal his true love for Nick's cousin, Daisy, Tom Buchanan's wife. Through a series of unfortunate misunderstandings supported by the lavish and decadent lifestyle of the wealthy on Long Island during the 1920's and 30's, Gatsby quickly becomes the object of a Tom's fury over advances made towards his wife. 

The historical setting of The Great Gatsby was the period known as the roaring twenties, a time of gaity, rejecting rigid rules of society, of flaunting wealth and all it could buy.  Prohibition legally prevented alcohol consumption, but money could buy whatever was needed to supply the illegal beverages to the wealthy.  The Great Gatsby was written by a man influenced by the romance of the era, but a man who could see the evils of the choices being made. 

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