The Great Gatsby foIIows wouId-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of Ioosening moraIs, gIittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick Iands next door to a mysterious, party-giving miIIionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, bIue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. lt is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating worId of the super rich, their ilIusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a taIe of impossibIe Iove, incorruptibIe dreams and high-octane tragedy, and hoIds a mirror to our own modern times and struggIes. |