Narrative Analysis

Title of the book: The Great Gatsby
Film Director: 1974 : Jack clayton
Book Genre/type of book: Modernist Novel, Jazz Age, novel of manners, romantic tragedy
Main Character: Jay Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Nick (narrator)
Secondary characters: Myrtle, George, Jordan
Background characters: Owl Eyes, DR.T.J. Eckleburg

What is the background of this book, why did the author write it?

Fitzgerald started writing it in June 1922 and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923. Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly. He describe is an "the imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world." In 1992 fitzgerald moved to the Great Neck long island with his family, which is where the wealthy people lived who were all wanting the 'american dream' and across the bay is where the americans with not a lot of money lived. This is where he got his idea from to create the "West Egg"and the "East Egg".