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A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, this novel captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of John Doe’s quixotic passion for D. They fall in love, but while John Doe serves overseas, D. marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom. After the war, John Doe devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of D., which amounts to the same thing
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