Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ...Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read,
Dickstein (English, City U. of New York) presents a collection of essays on The Great Gatsby, which begins with pieces which place the novel in the context of the Jazz Age and discuss its favorable cr
