The Great Gatsby

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. \--first edition jacket --- Also contained in: - [The Fitzgerald Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468551W/The_Fitzgerald_Reader) - [Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468557W)

Set in

• ★
  New York City · United States

  Plaza Hotel, apartment scenes
  ★ primary
• ★
  Great Neck, New York · United States

  Gatsby's home / narrator's residence
  ★ primary
• ★
  The Plaza Hotel, New York City · United States

  Chapter 7 confrontation scene: Tom, Gatsby, and Daisy take a suite here on the day of the showdown
  ★ primary
• Sands Point, New York · United States

  Tom and Daisy Buchanan's home
• Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens · United States

  industrial wasteland between West Egg and NYC