O GRANDE GATSBY

In the era of Jay Gatsby, jazz is the music of the moment, wealth seems to be everywhere, gin is the national drink (despite Prohibition), and sex becomes an American obsession. The protagonist of this novel is a generous and mysterious host who opens his luxurious mansion to the most extravagant parties. The story is narrated by the disillusioned aristocrat Nick Carraway, who moves to New York to work as a bond salesman. There, he becomes entangled with his cousin Daisy, the object of Gatsby’s longing; her husband, Tom Buchanan; and the golfer Jordan Baker — all members of the old-money elite.
At the heart of the drama, as in Fitzgerald’s other works, lies money. But Gatsby’s obsessive romantic idealism toward Daisy contrasts with the materialism of the American Dream, which is portrayed as being reduced solely to wealth.
Critically acclaimed since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece — a defining work of the “Lost Generation” and of the expatriates who moved to Europe in the 1920s.