Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel that elegantly and truthfully details the period of American history known as the Roaring Twenties. Taking place on the West and East Eggs of Long Island, The Great Gatsby tells the tale of Jay Gatsby (an incredibly wealthy but yet a complete mystery of a man) and of his undying love for Daisy Buchanan. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel of lavish parties filled with drunken orgies of sheer debauchery, love affairs, and murder, but yet it still manages to show the innocence and naivety of the very people that sinfully tarnish the world in which ...

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