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Bookmark or Share- The Great Gatsby: Key Facts | SparkNotesMajor conflict Gatsby has amassed a vast fortune in order to win the affections of the upper-class Daisy Buchanan, but his mysterious past stands in the way of his being accepted by her. Rising action Gatsby’s lavish parties, Gatsby’s arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick’s. Climax There are two possible climaxes: Gatsby’s reunion ...
- The Great Gatsby Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitChartsThe publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, made Fitzgerald a literary star. He married Zelda one week later. In 1924, the couple moved to Paris, where Fitzgerald began work on The Great Gatsby. Though now considered his masterpiece, the novel sold only modestly. The Fitzgeralds returned to the United States in 1927.
- The Great Gatsby - WikipediaThe Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra ...
- The Great Gatsby: Full Book Summary | SparkNotesThe Great Gatsby Full Book Summary. Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established ...
- The Great Gatsby: Important Quotes Explained | SparkNotesChapter 3: Gatsby's smile. He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted ...
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