The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition

The Great Jazz Age Novel _______ The 1925 Original Version with Classroom History _______ The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus exploring themes of decadence idealism social stigmas patriarchal norms and the deleterious effects of unencumbered wealth in capitalistic society set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. At its heart it’s a cautionary tale a revealing look into the darker side to the American Dream. “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby the man who gives his name to this book was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures then there was something gorgeous about him some heightened sensitiv