The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title of the “Great American Novel” The novel’s U.S. copyright will expire on January 1, 2021, when all works published in 1925 enter the public domain.
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess. It is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title of the “Great American Novel” The novel’s U.S. copyright will expire on January 1, 2021, when all works published in 1925 enter the public domain in the United States. The story of the book primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatby and his quixotic passion and obsession to reunite with his ex-lover, the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Many literary critics consider The Great Getsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written. The book has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream and a critical social history of Prohibition-era America during the Jazz Age. In Fitzgerald’s eyes, the 1920s era represented a morally permissive time when Americans of all ages became disillusioned with prevailing social norms and were monomaniacally obsessed with self-gratification: “a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.” The novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. In its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald was a young Midwesterner from Minnesota, and, like the novel’s narrator who went to Yale, he was educated at an Ivy League school, Princeton.
He met Ginevra King, a 16-year-old socialite with whom he fell in love. After his success as a novelist, Fitzgerald moved to New York to be with Zelda Sayre. He found his new lifestyle in the exclusive milieu of Long Island. Fitzgerald is similar to Jay GatsBy in that he fell. in love while a military officer stationed far from home and sought to prove himself to the woman he loved. He was sujected as a suitor due to his lack of financial prospects. He joined the U. S. Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Montgomery, Alabama where he met vivacious 17-year old Sayre, who agreed to marry him until he could prove a financial success. In his short story, Fitzgerald is a short story writer as well as a short-story writer and short story editor. He is also the author of the short story collection, “A Farewell to Arms,” which has been adapted into several films and TV shows. He died in 1940, believing himself to have been a failure and his work forgotten, but the novel has since become a cultural icon and is considered a “must-read” for many Americans. In the novel, Fitzgerald educates his readers about the hedonistically society of the Jazz age by placing a relatable plotline within the historical context of the raucous, gaudy era.
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