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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Dark Reality of the American Dream
The Great Gatsby is remembered for parties, wealth and the glitter of the Jazz Age. But beneath all that excess, F. Scott Fitzgerald built one of American literature’s bleakest stories about desire: what happens when someone devotes his entire life to recovering something that never really existed.Set during the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway into the world of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire whose enormous fortune and extravagant parties conceal a single obsession — Daisy Buchanan. Through Gatsby’s pursuit of her, Fitzgerald explores old money and new money…
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