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📚 Book Briefs: 🎩 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📖

📚 Book Briefs: 🎩 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📖 F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" 📚 is a masterpiece of American literature, set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, a period marked by jazz music, prohibition, and unprecedented economic prosperity 💵. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the book's narrator, readers are introduced to the world of wealth, ambition, and illusion that defines the East Egg and West Egg of Long Island, New York. Nick, a Yale graduate 🎓 and World War I veteran ⚔️, moves to West Egg to pursue a career in bond sales. He rents a modest house 🏠 next to the mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a wealthy party-thrower whose origins and source of wealth are the subject of much speculation. Across the bay in the more fashionable East Egg live Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan 🌼, and her husband, Tom, a man of old money and infidelity 💔. As the summer progresses, Nick is drawn into the opulent world 🌎 of his neighbors