Much like the title character of the novel, author F. Scott Fitzgerald came from humble beginnings. Growing up, he considered himself to be unsuccessful and poor, and was motivated to rise above his station by the dazzling idea of the American dream and the luxury lives of the elite population. He became a Princeton alumnus and an army man, and pulling from those experiences he wrote what he knew – and wrote it well. For example, the relationship between Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda is assumed to be the basis for the love affair of Gatsby and Daisy, as well as the majority of the characters hailing from the Midwest of America, where he grew up. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in accordance with the greatest rule of writing has taken from his own life to create brilliant characters who are real inside and out, with all their faults, idiosyncrasies and countless other aspects that make them human. …show more content…
With enough detail to immerse you in the world and culture of the nineteen-twenties whilst still creating a plotline that can relate to the modern age, The Great Gatsby is a timeless classic whose themes of love, wealth, compassion and mortality are still more than relevant today.
Told in the perspective of narrator Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby recounts the story of protagonist Jay Gatsby and his quest to reunite with the girl he loved and lost five years previous to the start of the novel, Daisy Buchanan. Through Nick’s poetic lens, we are exposed to the gloriously superficial world of the affluent population of jazz-age New York