THE GREAT GATSBY Francis Scott Fitzgerald
SETTING
CHARACTERS
NICK CARRAWAY
JORDAN BAKER
JAY GATSBY
(JAY GATZ)
DAISY BUCHANAN
TOM BUCHANAN
MYRTLE WILSON
GEORGE WILSON
MEYER WOLFSHIEM
HISTORICAL CONTEXT THE ROARING 20s
economic boom money
entertainment fun, leisure
jazz music
dance
radio
cinema
sport
fashion
female emancipation
flappers
prohibitionism criminality
alcohol
bootleggers
speakeasy
gangsters (Al Capone)
NARRATOR
1st person narrator
Nick Carraway
we learn everything through his point of view
retrospective narration
THEMES
The American Dream and its collapse
link
Class, Money (old and new) and identity
Romantic love and obsession
Past and future
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK
Sottoargomento
F. S. Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)