TheGreatGatsby

•Publishing information-- The Great Gatby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published on April 10, 1925. Within a year of the original publiscation the novel was adapted for both Hollywood films and a Brodway production. The novel was not very popular when it was first printed selling less than 25,000 copies. During the Great Depression and World War II the bool was mostly forgoten until it was republished in 1945 and again in 1953. it quickly found wide spred readership and is now regarded as one of the Great American Novels. it is now a standard in highschools and univeristies around the world. •Plot Summary Nick Carraway moved form his home in Minnesota to New York in the summer of 1922. He bought a house in the West Egg distric of Long Island. Shortly after moving in Nick met his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Things slowly unfolded and in turneed out that Gatsby once dated and was still in love with Nicks cousin Daisy. Nick later introduces Gatsby to Daisy, again, and her husband Tom. Daisy and Gatsby started spending more and more time together and soon things grow to a full blown affair. Daisy also introduces Nick to Jordan a young golf champion. Nick and Jordan soon begin seeing each other. Tom startes to get suspicous of Gatsby and Daisy and he comfronts them about the affair, which is very hypocritical becouse Tom has been cheating on Daisy sence the day they got married. In the end Gatsby is murderd by a man named George Wilson. Nick has a funeral for Gatsby and the leaves to go back to the mid-west. (For a more detailed plot overview go to [|SparkNotes]) • Symbols & Themes __The green light__- The green light is on the end of Daisy's East Egg dock and can be seen form Gatsby's West Egg lawn. This light represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. __Money__- The major theme of the novel was that money could buy your happieness. Money was the thing that really separated the socail classes in this book. money was also the reason that Gatsby could not be with Daisy when they first met because daisy was rich and she couldn't marry a poor boy. __The color green__- Firzgerald often used colors to represent specific themes in his novles. Fitzgerald used the color green to represent money and happeiness in this book. __The color gold__- Fitzgerald also used the color gold to represent wealth and money. Gatsby's car was goldish yellow and he had many gold suits. • Period and/ or Style • Critical response • Awards and/ or literary importance
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