The Great Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby" is a short story written by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is set in New York and Long Island in the 1920s. Through the narration of "I" Carraway, it depicts the tragic story of the mysterious rich Gatsby who persisted in love but was eventually abandoned by love and died because of it. With beautiful language and exquisite techniques, it delicately and accurately depicts the social landscape of the United States in the "Jazz Age". It can be called a swan song that shows the disillusionment of the "American Dream" in the 1920s, and is regarded as a symbol of the "Jazz Age" of American literature. The publication of "The Great Gatsby" established Fitzgerald's status in the American literary world, becoming the spokesperson of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation". After the 1950s, "The Great Gatsby" has been used as a standard textbook in American high school and college literature courses. At the end of the 20th century, "The Great Gatsby" ranked second in the competition of "The 100 Best English Novels of the Century".