The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the best texts for teaching students how to read literature critically (which means you may have read it in school). The novel is told from the perspective of a young man named Nick Carraway, who has recently moved to New York City and is befriended by Jay Gatsby, an eccentric nouveau riche with mysterious origins.

The Great Gatsby offers an insider's view of the Jazz Age of the 1920s in American history while also criticizing the concept of the "American Dream." Perhaps the most famous aspect of the novel is its cover art, which features a piercing face projected onto a dark blue night sky and city lights—an image that is also found, in a slightly different configuration, on the back cover, within the text itself as a key symbol.

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