
The Great Gatsby
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Scott Baker
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The novel was inspired by a romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.
Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's cover art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated aspects of it into the novel.
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Narrator lessens a Classic American Novel
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The story
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Wonderful Classic
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Great read.
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Wealth and Tragedy in the 1920s
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That said, this as a great American tragedy. Melancholic and driven by fate, The nouveau riche rain chaos on themselves and others. Gatsby is the ultimate striver, whose single mindedness and obsession leads to his downfall. Perhaps the best last line in American lit.
An American classic. A tragedy of obsession and blind love among the idle class.
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Great Gatsby
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The narrator’s mincing wilting imitation of what he thinks women sound like.
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I chose to listen to it because I am working on listening to or reading classic, influential novels, but this was the 1st and it greatly reduced my motivation to read what is considered classic and influential novels.
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