![]() ![]() The narrator, and Gatsby’s next-door neighbor, Nick Carraway, discovers Gatsby is more than any of the rumors, “better than all the others put together”.īut Gatsby has a fatal flaw – love for the shallow Daisy Buchanan. He is discussed, rumors fly about him, his parties are described in detail. In fact, in the novel, the reader has to wait three chapters (almost 1/3 of the book) before meeting him. ![]() Sadly, both died very broken and fairly young.Īlthough The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 – the height of the Jazz Age and of the Fitzgerald’s fame – it reflects what was broken about this era. They drank and partied and lived it up…until they didn’t. Their exploits around New York City were stuff of legends. He and his wife Zelda were described as the “prince and princess” of the Jazz Age. ![]() The change in fashion from 1915 to 1925 was unlike anything we’ve seen before or since.Īnd right in the middle of all the action was F Scott Fitzgerald. Women were able to vote, they were joining the work force, cutting their hair, shortening their skirts. There were battles against alcohol, which resulted in Prohibition on one side and rampant black market speakeasies on the other. ![]() America in the 1920s experienced massive changes at a rapid pace: Between the Great War and the Spanish Flu, millions of people died suddenly. ![]()
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