The Great Gatsby

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

First loves -- Fiction · Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction · Married women -- Fiction · Psychological fiction

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel published in 1925. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, it follows narrator Nick Carraway as he becomes drawn into the world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a wealthy millionaire who throws extravagant parties. Gatsby harbors an obsession with reuniting with Daisy Buchanan, a woman from his past now married to the affluent Tom. The story captures the glamour, excess, and moral complexities of 1920s America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)