No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.' Set in the dazzling Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby is F Scott Fitzgerald?s masterpiece on longing, illusion, and the cost of chasing dreams. At its center is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire whose lavish parties light up Long Island but whose true desire lies across the bay in the form of Daisy Buchanan, a woman from his past and the symbol of everything he yearns to reclaim. Narrated by the observant and uncertain Nick Carraway, the novel peels back the glittering surface of 1920s America to reveal a world of fragile glamour, ruthless ambition, and quietly unraveling lives. In prose as lyrical as it is exact, Fitzgerald captures the ache of wanting what can never truly be recovered?and the recklessness of believing otherwise. More than a love story, The Great Gatsby is a portrait of an era, a parable of wealth and emptiness, and one of the defining novels of the twentieth century.