Standing as one of the great novels of the 20th century, The Great Gatsby has endured because of its amazing understanding and explanation of human nature in its purest form. The themes and ideals in this novel have remained eminent even now, some 80 years later, because The Great Gatsby is a book about the strongest of human emotions and needs; love, hate, distrust, and most of all, desire. The most prevalent theme, however, is the loose morals, extravagant wealth, and the steady disintegration of dreams in the 1920s.
Our narrator in this tale is a young man by the name of Nick Carraway. Nick is not a wealthy man himself, but comes from generations of money. He resides in a humble cottage in West egg, an area typically inhabited by what is called "new money". Nick is a sensible man, and is determined to make his own place in the world, and is not concerned with becoming rich so much as becoming happy. Nick doesn't quite fit in with his new neighbors and friends, and in the end finds himself appalled by t
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