

The novel is a cautionary tale regarding the upheavals created by the disastrous cultural changes in the American society in that period. It creates a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties. The story explores the social change with decadence, idealism, resistance to change and excesses. Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire (born in a poor family) with mysterious quixotic passion for the beautiful woman Daisy Buchanan.

The story is of the year 1922 and characters of this story live in the town of West Egg of the prosperous Long Island. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in 1925.

'The Great Gatsby' written by American author F.
