The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby  is a novel by the American author f. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald took a lot of time for writing and gave from the beginning that this book had to go make him famous. After a long preparation, he began to work at the book in 1923 . After long review, writing, rewriting and removing large parts the book eventually appeared on april 10, 1925.

The story is set on Long Island and in New York City during the summer of 1922. This is the period of the roaring twenties and prohibition.

For the Dutch language area is the book released by different publishing houses since 1985. Susan Jackson provided the translation.

Although within a year after publication of the book a play on Broadway and appeared there a Hollywoodmovie of the novel was made, was forgotten during the great depression and the Second World War. Fitzgerald died in 1940, until years after his death the book to be a success. Reissues followed in 1945 and 1953, and soon the book was read by a large group of people. It is often described as the Great American Novel. The book has been translated in several languages and in countries around the world is the Great Gatsby included in the standard literature of high schools and universities. The book is in second place in a list of the 100 best English novels of thetwentieth century. The Great Gatsby has been filmed several times.



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[hide] *1 summary  ==Summary[ Edit] == The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, the neighbor of the main character. The Narrator is lying regularly against the reader which is not always clear exactly what happened.
 * 2 Title choice
 * Background 3
 * 4 film adaptations
 * 5 see also

Jay Gatsby, the main character, is a rich, mysterious but lonely veteran from the first world war. He lives on his estate and gives big parties for the Jet set. Before the war he had a relationship with Daisy. When he fought during the war in Europe is Daisy married to Tom Buchanan.

One day Gatsby's Daisy with the new car caused an accident in which Myrtle Wilson (the mistress of Tom) perish. When the man from Myrtle Wilson at Tom Buchanan Gatsby story comes as a driver and get, is owner of the car designated. This is for the man of Myrtle, George Wilson, a reason to shoot Gatsby and then to commit suicide.

During the funeral of Gatsby is more clear about his background. ==Title Choice[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fitzgerald long doubted about the title he would give the novel. Other titles that he considered were: Gatsby, Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires, Trimalchio, Trimalchio in West Egg, On the Road to West Egg, Under the Red, White, and Blue, Gold-Hatted Gatsby and The High-Bouncing Lover. Especially the title Trimalchio was long his favorite. Trimalchio is a character from the book Roman Satyricon, out there just like Gatsby as a playboy on los lives. On 19 March, just before the book went to the printer, he wanted to change the title in Under the Red, White, and Blue but the title could be changed. Fitzgerald later gave to not to be satisfied with the current title. ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The book is critical of the American Dream which would stand on the original American ideal that everyone should pursue its own freedom and happiness. Instead seeks only wealth and power after Gatsby, whereby he has squandered its standards and values. This, in turn, has meant that he feels empty and lonely.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The story is also an expression of true love. Daisy is the great love of Gatsby and the motivation for his financial success. He tries his money to get to the class of Daisy but he's never really accepted. The finer points and taken for granted that someone knows what has been said in his education, missing him. It marries with old money. Gatsby rents a home across the Bay where Daisy Buchanan lives with her husband Tom. Day and night he gives events check out in the hope that they can meet each other and they supposedly happen. His house is a light beacon and manages to lure her to it and then begins the story.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fitzgerald moved in 1922, in the period in which he prepared for the book, to Long Island (New York). Here, he was confronted with the rivalry between old money and the nouveau riche who lived in separate villages.This inspired him to think of the places for the new money West Egg and East Egg for the old money. The rivalry between both places also plays a role in the background of the story. Jay Gatsby belongs to the new money in West Egg while Tom and Daisy belong to the old money in East Egg.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Daisy and maybe the whole plot is inspired by Ginevra King who grew up in a Lake Forest home in Chicago called Kingdom Come Farm, a former outside of a wealthy banker that in 2008 new owners got. Ginevra was 16 when ' Scott ' met her. She was a childhood sweetheart of him, but they eventually had to have nothing by such a relatively poor provincaaltje as Fitzgerald and married old money from Chicago. There is two years of correspondence between them preserved. ==Film Adaptations<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="47" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(15,15,95);">The Great Gatsby has been filmed five times:


 * 1) The Great Gatsby, in 1926, by Herbert Brenon
 * 2) The Great Gatsby, in 1949, by Elliott Nugent
 * 3) The Great Gatsby, in 1974, by Jack Clayton with Robert Redford
 * 4) The Great Gatsby, in 2000, by Robert Markowitz
 * 5) The Great Gatsby, in 2013, by Baz Luhrmann with Leonardo DiCaprio.