The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald's Jazz Age elegy: a self-made millionaire, a green light, and the corruption of the American dream.

Specifications & Metrics

author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

type

Modernist novel

era

Jazz Age (1925)

language

English

setting

West Egg and East Egg, Long Island

parts

9 chapters

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in 1925 to disappointing sales during Fitzgerald's lifetime.
• Nick Carraway's narration frames Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy and the green light.
• Its revival mid-century made it the American novel of the century.

Sources

• Wikipedia: The Great Gatsby