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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was a novel written by an American author named F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1930s. The Great Gatsby is a novel that deals with the old rich colliding with the new rich, told through a man named Nick's point of view. In The Great Gatsby, Nick makes friends with Jay Gatsby, who attained his fortune by bootlegging. Bootleggers were people who sold alcohol illegally during the brief ban on alcohol in the United States during the 1930s and led to higher organized crime rates. Jay Gatsby was a class act who was in love with a woman named Daisy, but she was a woman of wealth so Gatsby got rich by any means necessary so he could buy a mansion across from the home Daisy lives in and hopefully attract her with the huge parties he threw. Unknown to Gatsby, Daisy was in an affair with Tom who is Nick's friend from college. The Great Gatsby was not just written so Americans could read about love affairs, because it focused on many values in the American......

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