The Great Gatsby

The era of the 1920's from which The Great Gatsby emerges is a time of partying and debauchery. Immediately, the audience is thrown into this world through the eyes of Nick the quite unreliable narrator, as he describes the hero, Jay Gatsby. Nick doesn't like Gatsby very much, for the most part, because he is jealous of Gatsby's wealth, and wary of how he might have acquired it. Thus, the audience certainly can't trust Nick's description of Gatsby, as it is a poisoned well.

Though Nick and Gatsby live in the same wealthy part of Long Island, known as the West Egg, they come from very different backgrounds. Nick is educated at Yale, and has family connections on the more fashionable East Egg of long Island tha

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