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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter I, The Great Gatsby [57] The character of Daisy Buchanan speaks one sentence in the novel partly drawn from Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, although greatly altered. [ 58 ] When their daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota , on October 26, 1921, Fitzgerald recorded verbatim his wife's ...
Thomas Parke D'Invilliers is both a pen name of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a character in his quasi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise.In the novel, which is more or less a roman à clef, D'Invilliers represents the poet John Peale Bishop, a friend of Fitzgerald's at Princeton and a member of the 1917 class.
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
Ahead of 100th anniversary ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 2025, Ellie Seymour travels east from Manhattan to the Hamptons, discovering the places that inspired the great American novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby carries on title page a poem called from its first hemistich "Then Wear the Gold Hat," purportedly signed by Thomas Parke D'Invilliers. D'Invilliers is a character in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise. This cliché is parodied by Diana Wynne Jones in The Tough Guide To Fantasyland.
The song appears in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, when Daisy Buchanan and Gatsby meet again after many years, and the latter insists Klipspringer, his apparently permanent "guest," to play it for them. [10] [16] It also appears in Dorothy Parker's 1929 short story, "Big Blonde."
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. [5]