The Great Gatsby-Om Illustrated Classics

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays post-war America and provides a thought-provoking examination of power, crime, betrayal, greed, and the American lifestyle during the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties. Nick Carraway, the narrator, seeks the American dream upon his arrival in New York in the summer of 1922. Living next door to the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby, who hosts extravagant parties for the wealthy and fashionable, Nick becomes intertwined in a web of relationships with his distant cousin Daisy and her unfaithful husband Tom, a former classmate from Yale. As the sole bridge between Gatsby and his lost love, Nick becomes immersed in the mesmerizing world of the wealthy and invites the reader on his journey as he witnesses their mistakes and emerges as a wiser man.