Dec 28, 2009
The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's finest novel, an almost perfect artistic creation which is perhaps the single most American novel of its time. It should be seen as the ultimate vehicle for the themes that form the central concerns of Fitzgerald's career, and indeed of so much of the United States’ national life: lost hope, the corruption of innocence by money, and the impossibility of recapturing the past. These elements are fused together by Fitzgerald's eloquent yet careful prose in a novel that transcends its period and has become a touchstone of American literature.
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