The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to be a cautionary tale for our time. While most attention is given — by readers of the novel or makers of film adaptations — to the parts of the ...

Evelyn Waugh, when he was re-reading Fitzgerald’s other major novel, Tender Is the Night, just a few years before his own death, found it remarkable that “one half-tipsy Yank with a typewriter” could ...

But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...

Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" has become a literary classic ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Through the eyes of our narrator, Nick Carraway, we see many iterations ...

When it was first released, critics loved "The Great Gatsby ... American Dream. In "Gatsby," it's only one symbol of several —"The Valley of Ashes," "The Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg" are ...

“The Great Gatsby” remains a cautionary tale about how wealth cannot guarantee happiness or acceptance. Through the eyes of bond salesman Nick Carraway, Daisy’s distant cousin, we witness ...

Scott Fitzgerald would be flabbergasted to hear that on the 100th anniversary of its publication, “The Great Gatsby” is being ... I locked eyes with him and asked, “Can I quote you?” ...