"The Great Gatsby"

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This paper presents a detailed review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby". The paper introduces the characters and explains the roles they play in the novel. The themes of the book are discussed in the paper, with a focus on the material and social conditions of America in the 1920's. The issue of new wealth and old wealth is covered in the paper.

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" "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald is a modernist novel of the jazz age as well as a novel of manners (Spark Notes 2004), written in the US and France and first published in 1925 by charles Scribner's Sons. The setting is in Long Island and New York in the summer of 1922 with Nick Carraway as a narrator and participant in the fiction itself. The novel relates the life, success, pains and failures of Nick's friend, Jay Gatsby, and the fall of his American dream, the hypocrisy and materialism of the Roaring 20s and what really lay between social classes in those times. It reveals the great contrast between symbol and reality and the power of the past over the present and the future."

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