The Great Gatsby: Context Analysis The Great Gatsby, set in what was known as the Jazz Age, or the Roaring Twenties, brilliantly evokes its historical moment: postwar America’s economic growth, new jazz music, and free-flowing illicit whiskey. It was “a whole race turning hedonistic, choosing on pleasure,” Fitzgerald later commented in an article on the […]
The Great Gatsby – Plot Summary Nick Carraway, a Yale University graduate from the Midwest who travels to New York after WWI to consider a career in bonds, is the narrator of the novel. He describes the events of the summer he spent in the East two years later, piecing together his experience through a […]
Book Review The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby is one of my all-time favorites. Daisy Buchanan and Mr. Jay Gatsby’s narrative is told through the eyes of Nick, the narrator, and a recent Yale graduate. He begins the book by recalling a piece of instruction from his father about not judging […]
