The Great Gatsby

What illusions sparkle under the lights of Gatsby’s endless parties? And what hidden realities do they attempt to mask? Chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby plunges you, alongside narrator Nick Carraway, directly into the heart of Jay Gatsby’s extravagant world. This chapter marks your (and Nick’s) crucial first encounter with the enigmatic

Chapter 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby pulls narrator Nick Carraway from Long Island’s refined estates into jarringly different territories. First, the chapter drags Nick to the grim industrial wasteland known as the “valley of ashes,” then to a sordid, chaotic apartment party in New York City. We explore the chapter’s potent symbolism,

Chapter 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby pulls narrator Nick Carraway from Long Island’s polished estates into new, unsettling territories: the grim “valley of ashes” and a chaotic Manhattan apartment party. Nick’s unwilling participation exposes him to the bleak realities beneath the Jazz Age facade, culminating in witnessing startling violence. Explore how these

What happens when the American Dream becomes a dangerous obsession? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) plunges readers into the heart of the Jazz Age, a world shimmering with promise yet shadowed by disillusionment. We meet the magnetic Jay Gatsby through narrator Nick Carraway’s eyes on Long Island’s opulent shores in 1922. Gatsby’s legendary