In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.’ Set in the roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is about the American Dream – and all the contradictions that come with it. The Great Gatsby is the story of the young millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for the gorgeous former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Theirs is a world full of glitz and decadence, through which Fitzgerald explores themes of hedonism and individualism, idealism and morality. At once an optimistic ode to the American spirit and a biting indictment of the snares of the American Dream, The Great Gatsby captures succinctly the essence of the Jazz Age.
