F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote novels and short stories about wealth, status, ambition and self-invention in early twentieth-century America. The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, who watches the wealthy Jay Gatsby pursue Daisy Buchanan across the social divide between old money, new money and those excluded from both. Tender Is the Night follows psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole among expatriates in Europe as their marriage and his career deteriorate, while This Side of Paradise traces a young man's education and romantic disappointments after Princeton. Fitzgerald's prose is often compressed and image-rich, but his plots remain closely tied to money, desire and the instability behind glamorous social worlds. His work sits within American classics, Jazz Age fiction and modernist literature, alongside writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Edith Wharton who approach some of the same period or class tensions differently. Read more Less
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