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Analysis and the Social Significance of The Great Gatsby Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a famous American writer. He is often acclaimed the spokesman of Jazz Age. He is so central to the American that it would be difficult to picture that time fully if he had not existed. Part of his central role has to do with the style with which he responded to his experience, which made him see certain aspects of the life of the twenties more clearly and deeper than his contemporaries. In his novels, Fitzgerald unfolds before us the fashion, the luxury, the deceit and the emptiness of social life of 1920s. One of the distinguishing features of his works, like the others writers in his age, is parallel between his characters and his own experiences. Written on 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, which wins many favorable praises. And it is also central to the literature of the twenties, and it is the mainstream of American realism as it emerged after World War I. Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the embodiment of the nation and created a myth out of American life. The story of The Great Gatsby is a good illustration. Gatsby is a young guy from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a wealthy girl, but is too poor to marry her. The girl is then married to a rich man, Tom Buchanan. Determined to win back his lost love, Gatsby engages himself in bootlegging and other ?shady? activities, thus earning enough money to buy a magnificent house. Then he spreads dazzling parties every weekend, hoping one day the Buchanans will come. They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again. But the woman before him is not quite the ideal over of his dream and they can never repeat the past. Then Daisy kills a woman (Tom’s mistress) in an accident and plots with Tom to shift the blame on Gatsby. Finally, Gatsby was shot and the Buchanans escape. The Great Gatsby cau