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"The Great Gatsby" is a short story written by the American writer F. S. Fitzgerald in 1925, set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. The background of the novel is set in the white circle of the middle and upper classes of modern American society, and is unfolded through Calloway's narration. It shows the disillusionment of the "American Dream". This novel denounces the American privileged class represented by Tom as being selfish and arbitrary and doing whatever they want. It describes Gatsby's tragedy with a sympathetic attitude and points out that his tragedy comes from his fantasy of life and love and his lack of understanding of upper-class characters.

Edited by Fitzgerald's biographer and life friend, Andrew Turnbull, this book collects letters written by Fitzgerald to his only daughter, Scottie (1921-1986), from 1933 to his death in 1940, spanning his daughter's adolescence from the ages of 12 to 19.