time and has earned the distinction as one of the truly great American novels. "No writer has more closely personified the

glamour and heartbreak of the American dream... 'not just the American dream, but the human dream,'" ("Fitzgerald" 30).

Historically, this novel is useful in understanding what was going on in America after World War I, but from another

prospect. Fitzgerald presented so clearly the "restless" American society with all it's corruption and crimes, hidden in

people's determination to recreate their lives. Fitzgerald's best work "is one of the greatest literary documentsof this

period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation (Gatsby, n. pag.).

The Great Gatsby delineates the diverse elements of high society during the Jazz Age through the following representative

characters: Jay Gatsby as the nouveau riche, Tom Buchanan as the old money, and Jordan Baker as the reckless, detached modern

The hero, Jay Gatsby, is a Midwesterner-turned-Easterner, whose ambition is fueled by the desire to be reunited

in the novel, he couldn't stand it when he realized that his wife and mistress were "slipping precipitately from his

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