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The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fictional novel written and based on the 1920s, also known as the Roaring Twenties. A time where people drank, partied, and were becoming immoral. The main character and also the narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, is a conservative young man from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek ‘freedom' and escape his small town background. But then decides to leave, judging it to be shallow and meaningless. When being in New York, he sees his cousin Daisy. There he meets her husband, Tom Buchanan, and finds that he is cheating on her with Myrtle Wilson. He also meets Gatsby, a poor wealthy young man who is very much in love with Nick's cousin, Daisy. In the novel Nick is also introduced to Jordan Baker, Daisy's good friend. She is a wealthy young golfer whom Nick ends up dating while being in New York,. At the end of the novel, Nick says to Gatsby, "They're a rotten crowd…You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." He tells......

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