The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald's classic novel of the jazz age is the story of a man drawn into corruption and his own destruction through his infatuation with a wealthy girl named Daisy. He first met her at a party when he was in the army during World War I. After the war, through his dealings with organized crime, Jay Gatsby accumulates a fortune, buys a luxury mansion on Long Island, across the water from Daisy and her husband, and begins to throw extravagent parties to attract her attention. And when he meets her cousin, Nick Carraway, who rents a very modest house nearby, he begins to become a part of her life.