Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby continues to fascinate and grip Americans today. In an era much like the 1920s-one in which we have come to enjoy new levels of comfort and convenience, in which we celebrate celebrity and opulence, but in which there remain glaring inequalities of wealth and privilege-Gatsby is more relevant than ever. "So we beat on," as Fitzgerald wrote, "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores them