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The Great Gatsby Summary & Study Guide Description
The Great Gatsby Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Great Gatsby Plot Summary
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This classic novel, set during the "Jazz Age" (the 1920s) in a young postwar America, is the coming-of-age story of an idealistic young financier who, over the course of a memorable summer, learns uncomfortable truths about the relationships between truth and illusion, between past and present. The narrative, written during the time in which it is set by an author who was part of the high-living crowd within which the action takes place, has long been regarded by critics, scholars and readers as an indictment of the so-called "American Dream".
Narrator Nick Carraway, an ambitious beginner in the New York world of finance, describes the circumstances of his arrival in the East and of his discovery that his home is next to that of the wealthy, mysterious Jay Gatsby (who throws spectacular parties), and across a narrow bay from Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a distant relative and her husband....
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