Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into ...

The social and economic setting of “The Great Gatsby” closely mirrors the world Fitzgerald inhabited during the Roaring Twenties, a time of financial prosperity and cultural upheaval.

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old ... There’s something reassuring about knowing that Gatsby is the book we’ve chosen to put in classrooms and movie theaters, to make it one of those culture ...

It’s a period closely associated with The Great Gatsby ... Leonardo DiCaprio’s onscreen pool when he played Gatsby in Luhrmann’s movie. Oheka Castle is said to have inspired the Gatsby ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, “The Great Gatsby.” According to Mercer, the Jazz Age story was captivating from the first read-through and was an obvious choice to inspire her first script.