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Article: As told by Nick; What makes "The Great Gatsby" so great? Look beyond the razzmatazz of the Jazz Age and into the wise heart of the story's narrator. This is Nick Carraway's tale.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 23, 2006
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Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
The action takes place on Long Island, where Jazz Age flappers and gangsters roar into the hot summer of 1925, shimmying through wealth and romance before seizing up in a calamity of death and disillusionment. For most readers, those are the definitive icons of "The Great Gatsby" - a story about the aspirations of Jay Gatsby and his tragic longing for Daisy Buchanan.
But it's not New York or Gatsby or Daisy that make F. Scott Fitzgerald's book a classic expression of the American dream. If so, this airtight masterpiece would spring effortlessly to stage or screen, and the theater world would not so anxiously be ...