36 Facts About The Great Gatsby

Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F Scott Fitzgerald.

The Great Gatsby submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter.

The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.

That evening, Nick sees The Great Gatsby standing alone on his lawn, staring at a green light across the bay.

The Great Gatsby tries impressing Nick with tales of his war heroism and his Oxford days.

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Jordan reveals that The Great Gatsby and Daisy met around 1917 when The Great Gatsby was an officer in the American Expeditionary Forces.

Tom reveals The Great Gatsby is a swindler whose money comes from bootlegging alcohol.

Tom scornfully tells The Great Gatsby to drive her home, knowing that Daisy will never leave him.

Later The Great Gatsby reveals to Nick that Daisy was driving the car, but that he intends to take the blame for the accident to protect her.

The Great Gatsby longed to produce an exquisite work that was beautiful and intricately patterned, but the troubled production of his stage play The Vegetable repeatedly interrupted his progress.

The Great Gatsby viewed these stories as all worthless, although included among them was "Winter Dreams", which Fitzgerald described as his first attempt at the Gatsby idea.

Several Gold Coast mansions in the area served as inspiration for The Great Gatsby's estate including Land's End, Oheka Castle, and the since-demolished Beacon Towers.

The Great Gatsby wished to eschew the realism of his previous two novels and to compose a creative work of sustained imagination.

The Great Gatsby was particularly influenced by Cather's 1923 work, A Lost Lady, which features a wealthy married socialite pursued by a variety of romantic suitors and who symbolically embodies the American dream.

The Great Gatsby later wrote a letter to Cather apologizing for any unintentional plagiarism.

The Great Gatsby declined an offer of $10,000 for the serial rights to the book so that it could be published sooner.

The Great Gatsby received a $3,939 advance in 1923 and would receive $1,981.

Artwork for the first edition of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated in American literature and represents a unique instance in literary history in which a novel's commissioned artwork directly influenced the composition of the text.

Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews from literary critics of the day.

The Great Gatsby despaired that "of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about".

Full-length scholarly articles on Fitzgerald's works were being published in periodicals and, by the following year, the earlier consensus among professional critics that The Great Gatsby was merely a sensational story or a nostalgic period piece had effectively vanished.

The Great Gatsby suggests Gatsby serves as a false prophet of the American dream, and pursuing the dream only results in dissatisfaction for those who chase it, owing to its unattainability.

Besides exploring the difficulties of achieving the American dream, The Great Gatsby explores societal gender expectations during the Jazz Age.

The Great Gatsby is the target first of Tom's callous domination and next of Gatsby's dehumanizing adoration.

The Great Gatsby involuntarily becomes the holy grail at the center of Gatsby's unrealistic quest to be steadfast to a youthful concept of himself.

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The ensuing contest of wills between Tom and The Great Gatsby reduces Daisy to a trophy wife whose sole existence is to augment her possessor's socio-economic success.

Years later, while drafting The Great Gatsby, rumors dogged Fitzgerald among the American expat community in Paris that he was gay.

The Great Gatsby publicly belittled him with homophobic slurs, and she alleged that Fitzgerald and fellow writer Ernest Hemingway engaged in homosexual relations.

Technological and environmental criticisms of The Great Gatsby seek to place the novel and its characters in a broader historical context.

The Great Gatsby conveniently ignores the wasteful devastation of the valley of ashes to pursue a consumerist lifestyle and exacerbates the wealth gap that became increasingly salient in 1920s America.

Great Gatsby has been accused of antisemitism because of its use of Jewish stereotypes.

The Great Gatsby has been adapted for the stage multiple times since its publication.

The Great Gatsby has been recast multiple times as a short-form television movie.

In 1958, CBS filmed another adaptation as an episode of Playhouse 90, titled The Great Gatsby, which was directed by Franklin J Schaffner and starred Robert Ryan, Jeanne Crain and Rod Taylor.

The Great Gatsby was directed by Robert Markowitz and starred Toby Stephens as Gatsby, Mira Sorvino as Daisy, and Paul Rudd as Nick.

In 2011, developer Charlie Hoey and editor Pete Smith created an 8-bit-style online game of The Great Gatsby called The Great Gatsby for NES; in 2022, after the Adobe Flash end of life they adapted this game to an actual NES ROM file, which can be played on their website.