The Great Gatsby (Annotated)

Set amid the glittering excesses of 1920s Long Island, The Great Gatsby is a finely wrought tragedy of aspiration, illusion, and moral decay. Through the retrospective narration of Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald renders Jay Gatsby's doomed pursuit of Daisy Buchanan as both a private romance and a national allegory. Its lyrical compression, symbolic density, and modernist concern with fractured percepti...