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        The Great Gatsby


        setting

        Long Island, Oyster Bay

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1925

        page count

        189

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway

        Rip's impressions

        It's about the American Dream in the twenties, the quintessential American Novel of its day––as close to perfect as writing can get.

        first line

        In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        F. Scott Fitzgerald was a notoriously lousy speller; his proofreaders must have worked harder than most.

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