The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald who follows a group of characters who live in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story mainly refers The young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby explores the themes of decadence, idealism , resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of jazz or the crazy twenties that has been described as one Warning regarding the American dream.