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''The Great Gatsby'' is considered the finest work of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]. It documents the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s, which was a period of great prosperity in America just before the [[Great Depression]]. [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/context.html]

[[Image:Great gatsby.jpg|right|thumb|The cover of the Scribner Paperback Edition of ''The Great Gatsby'', 1995.]]

'''The Great Gatsby''' is considered the finest work of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]. It documents the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s, which was a period of great prosperity in America just before the [[Great Depression]]. [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/context.html]

It is a novel about of Jay Gatsby, who was an aspiring American from the Midwest, just as Fitzgerald himself was.  Gatsby becomes a bootlegger during Prohibition, illegally selling liquor in his quest to impress Daisy Buchanan, a married, upper-class woman who had previously rejected him.  

It is a novel about of Jay Gatsby, who was an aspiring American from the Midwest, just as Fitzgerald himself was.  Gatsby becomes a bootlegger during Prohibition, illegally selling liquor in his quest to impress Daisy Buchanan, a married, upper-class woman who had previously rejected him.