The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby´s tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the ´great American novel´.