However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he considered a variety of alternatives, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio the title he was last documented to have desired was "Under the Red, White, and Blue".įirst published by Scribner's in April 1925, "The Great Gatsby" received mixed reviews and sold poorly in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was too vague and convinced the author to revise over the next winter. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, "The Great Gatsby" explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.įitzgerald - inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore - began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. "The Great Gatsby" is a 1925 novel written by American author F.
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