Words Wednesday: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today’s Words Wednesday spotlights F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby.
Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is set in the West Egg, a fictional neighborhood on Long Island. The novel follows narrator Nick Carraway as he becomes entangled in the drama of the West Egg socialites including, above all, the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby. Through grand affairs, intrigue and tragedy, The Great Gatsby explores the opulence, morality, society and decline of both the Roaring Twenties and the American Dream.
Though many original reviewers condemned the novel as a decline from earlier works like This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, it is The Great Gatsby that has continued to solidify F. Scott Fitzgerald’s place in the American literary canon.
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