F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has endured as a classic glimpse into a period of time that is now referred to as the Roaring 20s - an American decade marked by extravagance, self-gratification and indifference. As Americans strove to find and claim for themselves a piece of what they considered to be the "American Dream", they inevitably got lost in the process, and Fitzgerald created ... life Gatsby leads - the wild parties, free associations, mansion home, etc. There is no real equation between the characters in The Great Gatsby and Zelda Fitzgerald, who was eventually overtaken by...

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