The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby ebook is a 1925 tragedy novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set on Long Island and New York City during the Jazz Age (the Roaring Twenties), the book stands as a premier critique of the disillusioned American Dream, class divide, and the excesses of the nouveau riche. Though it was a commercial failure during Fitzgerald's lifetime, it is now widely celebrated as the "Great American Novel".
Plot Overview
The story is told through a first-person narrator, Nick Carraway, a young Yale graduate who moves from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, to work in the bond business. Nick rents a small house next door to a colossal, French-style mansion owned by Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who hosts extravagant, booze-fueled weekend parties for hundreds of uninvited guests.
Across the bay in East Egg lives Nick’s distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her ultra-wealthy, arrogant husband, Tom. Nick soon discovers that Gatsby’s entire lavish lifestyle—and the location of his mansion—is a meticulously calculated effort to attract Daisy, with whom Gatsby had a passionate romance five years earlier before he left to fight in World War I. At Gatsby’s request, Nick arranges an intimate tea where Gatsby and Daisy reunite, reigniting their complicated love affair. The relationship builds toward a high-stakes confrontation in Manhattan between Tom and Gatsby, culminating in a tragic, hit-and-run car accident that shatters Gatsby's illusions and leads to his downfall.
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