The Great Gatsby

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 […]

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. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the novel chronicles his experiences on Long Island during the summer of 1922 as he encounters

What happens when the American Dream becomes a fatal 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. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the novel chronicles his experiences on Long Island during the summer of 1922 as he encounters

A gray phantom called the Valley of Ashes lies between West Egg’s glittering estates and New York’s magnetic promise. What bleak reality festers beneath the surface in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby? More than mere geography, this industrial wasteland manifests the moral decay and human cost of the Roaring Twenties’ relentless materialism. Uncover this

Gatsby’s legendary parties explode with life, a dazzling, chaotic spectacle at the heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. But what do these lavish gatherings truly reveal? More than mere celebrations, they’re Gatsby’s grand stage, methodically designed to project an image of immense wealth and, above all, to lure his lost love, Daisy Buchanan.

Can wealth and determination turn back the clock? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby relentlessly examines this question, embodied by Jay Gatsby’s fervent conviction that the past is malleable, repeatable. Gatsby’s obsessive drive to recapture a lost golden moment with Daisy Buchanan becomes the novel’s engine, dissecting the intoxicating power of nostalgia, the treacherous nature