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The Great Gatsby
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Cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring a blue background with large disembodied eyes and red lips above a glowing cityscape.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with 'The Great Gatsby' book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.
Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby stands in a suit with arms crossed, leaning against a yellow vintage car in front of a grand mansion in The Great Gatsby (1974). Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, in a tuxedo, stands at a lavish party with elegantly dressed guests in 1920s attire in a scene from The Great Gatsby (2013). Studio portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald wearing a suit and tie, holding a lit cigarette and looking at the camera, circa 1925.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, in a tuxedo, stands at a lavish party with elegantly dressed guests in 1920s attire in a scene from The Great Gatsby (2013).
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  • Julia Martinez
    Julia Martinez was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with bachelor's degrees in English Language and Literature and Medieval Studies.
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Modified link of Web site: BBC - 'No one had the slightest idea what the book was about': Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel. Jul 20, 2026
Added a discussion of the changing roles of women in the 1920s as represented by Daisy and Jordan. Jun 12, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Overnights - The Great Gatsby Turns 100. Apr 30, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - The Great Gatsby (PDF). Dec 08, 2025
Add new Web site: The Criterion: An International Journal in English - Analysis of George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby: A Multi Theoretical Assessment (PDF). Oct 27, 2025
Added top questions. Sep 04, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences - A Reality Check on the American Dream in The Great Gatsby: A Textual Analysis through Strain Theories (PDF). Jul 26, 2025
Article revised. Apr 07, 2025
Added a list of characters and a fun fact about Jay Gatsby's favorite phrase. Mar 28, 2025
Media added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Yale University - Open Yale Courses - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Feb 10, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Introduction to The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Editions). Oct 21, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC - 'No one had the slightest idea what the book was about': Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel. Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - The Great Gatsby (PDF). Jul 29, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald - review. May 07, 2024
Key questions about The Great Gatsby added. Feb 03, 2024
Article revised. Jan 31, 2024
Add new Web site: Toronto Metropolitan University Pressbooks - "The Great Gatsby". Jan 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - The Great Gatsby. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Arts - The Great Gatsby. Sep 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Great Gatsby analysis. May 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The Great Gatsby". Aug 24, 2022
Media added. Jun 04, 2021
Article thoroughly revised Aug 07, 2019
Add new Web site: Trinity College Digital Repository - Why We Believe Nick Carraway: Narrative Reliability & American Identity in The Great Gatsby. Jan 21, 2019
Changed the description of Jay Gatsby from "self-made Midwesterner of considerable wealth" to "self-made millionaire from the Midwest." Dec 14, 2015
Changed "Princeton man" to "Yale graduate." Dec 14, 2015
Add new Web site: Michigan State University - "The Great Gatsby". Jan 23, 2012
Add new Web site: Kansas State University - Questions on Fitzgerald�s The Great Gatsby. Jan 23, 2012
New article added. Mar 30, 2011
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