Often considered one of the greatest novels in American classic literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the story about a young man named Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island in pursuit of his dream of becoming a bond salesman, and his next door neighbor, a self-made millionaire named Jay Gatsby, a man who lives a lavish lifestyle, and likes to throw extravagant parties every weekend. 

As the two get better acquainted, Carraway is thrust into Gatsby’s world of over the top parties, and his love and desire for a married woman he once knew named Daisy Buchanan. Jay and Daisy become reacquainted though Nick, and from there the plot begins to thicken....

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist who was born on September 24, 1896 and is best known today for The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. During his lifetime Fitzgerald experienced love, (with his wife, Zelda), success, (as a writer), alcoholism, celebrity, and despair. The Great Gatsby reflected on Fitzgerald’s own real life personality through the quest of the American dream, the compassion shown by the audiobooks narrator Nick Carraway, and the tragic death of someone close to him. In the end, Fitzgerald makes a connection between the dream of America’s discoverers and Gatsby’s own dream, his conception of himself.