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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a historical novel set in the roaring twenties, just after the first world war. In the times of the roaring twenties with the passing of the nineteenth adjustment in 1920, women felt even more liberated, and changed the style of life. Their skirts became shorter, hair was bobbed, and many people began to smoke. During this time, American cities grew large, the reason of this growing population was immigrants. The newer generation, on the other hand, manifested their time by a different way of dress, in listening to jazz and creating new manias such as the Charleston. In the book, many of the characteristics of the twenties are portrayed, such as the elaborate parties Gatsby hosts.

The Great Gatsby is written as a narrative, where Nick, the narrator, describes as fairly as he can the events which are happening. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery and allusions to draw the reader deeper into the story.
The order of events is relatively......

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