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The Great Gatsby

Fitzgernald F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925.

In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, men fight over a woman. To stay financially secure, they go into illegal business. Dreams are crushed and lives are lost.
It is a story that relates to the corruption of the American Dream.
The story takes place in an area near New York called “Long Island.� It is in a shape of an egg. They focus in on places on there named “East Egg�, “West Egg�, and “The Valley of Ashes.� West egg is for people who have recently made their fortunes. The characters Nick and Gatsby live there. The Valley of Ashes is for people who are not wealthy. The Wilson family lives there. The East Egg is for people who inherit their money. The characters Daisy and Tom live there. Daisy is a distant cousin one removed of Nick’s. One of her friends is a character named Jordan baker.
Nick Carraway is the narrator of this story. He can keep secrets and is......

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Approximate Word Count: 1539
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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