F. Scott Fitzgerald - novel - 1925 - p. 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 85    

Examining themes of decadence and social change, The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a war veteran and Yale alumnus in an affluent Long Island neighborhood. Nick’s neighbor, Jay Gatsby, is known for the rich parties he throws, though he does not participate in them himself, preferring to contemplate the green light from a mansion across the bay--that of one Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. Gatsby is in love with Daisy, and uses Nick (who knows Tom from college) to arrange an encounter with her. They begin an affair that implodes with the death of Tom’s own mistress. Nick moves back to the Midwest.

The novel presents a critical view of the American dream as it manifested during the Jazz Age as well as thematizing the marginalization of women and their instrumentalization in male-male power struggles.

Keywords: infidelity, marriage