The Characteristics Of Jay Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Video
The Great Gatsby - Characters - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Characteristics Of Jay Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
Fitzgerald-inspired by the parties he had attended while Fitzgrrald Long Island's north shore-began planning the novel indesiring to produce, in his words, "something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he considered a variety of alternatives, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue.
In its first year, the book sold only 20, copies. Fitzgerald died inbelieving himself to be a failure and his work forgotten.
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However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Gwtsby fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.]
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