The Great Gatsby, one of the many great novels written by a "Lost Generation"" author. It exhibits the insanity and non-traditional qualities of the Jazz-Age as F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, coined the rambunctious times of the 1920's. This narrative, which reminds so many of their own hopes and dreams, uses a story filled with lavish characters and locations, all analyzed by a war-hardened, middle-class man named Nick Carraway. The insanity, which is narrated by Mr. Carraway, is illustrated by the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom, and by Mr. Jay Gatsby himself. And when reality finally shows the upper echelon of New York City what is really happening, people die, marriages are strained, and enthusiastic weekend carousing will turn fatal. .
As a revolutionary author, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the character of Nick, with his drab, Midwestern and World War I experiences, and puts him in the center of a neighborhood which holds the most extravagant lie that has ever quite possibly been imagined. Nick, a humble bonds clerk begins this upside-down chapter of his life meeting his cousin for dinner I myself have always imagined a bonds-clerk as a sickly, unhappy man with a family and no time for parties. But Nick is the polar opposite, in that, he is a healthy bachelor of a thirty year-old, and he has time for multiple parties. His cousin is Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a powerfully built wealthy man who can not keep from dating other women while he is married. Peronally, these are my least favorite characters because they remind me of the aristocratic oligarchy of the Roman government in the years leading up to the installment of a Caesar. It is while visiting one of Tom's mistresses that Nick encounters what occurs when wealth meets the middle-class at a party. I will put it simply, it ends in a broken nose, a disgruntled photographer, and Nick's disillusionment with attending wild parties.
