After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means-and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. And one fine morning-" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's-and his country's-most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology.
Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known.
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