“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” “Thirty–the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.” These 50 iconic quotes from The Great Gatsby give us a fascinating glimpse of an opulent bygone era while reminding us that true wealth doesn’t come in material form. But as the age-old saying goes, money can’t buy you happiness, and that’s what this book is all about. Underneath all the sparkle, glitz and glamour, lies a lost and lonely man who uses his wealth to chase his dreams of finding fulfillment and love. He’s charming, generous, and endlessly optimistic, but as the story unfolds, we see another side to him.
Gatsby is famous for throwing lavish parties at his sprawling waterfront mansion in Great Neck, Long Island. The unassuming Nick Carraway narrates the story, but the true protagonist is, of course, the ludicrously wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic, The Great Gatsby, is a quintessential exploration of the gilded age, a time where wealth and corruption reigned.
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