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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
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A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsbyat the London International Antiquarian Book Fair on June 13, 2025. Oli Scarff/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesThe Great Gatsby— 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The GreatGatsbypossesses "all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."
The novel's main characters are young in a restless America reveling in the excess of the new Modern Age — an age whose anxieties have resurfaced with fresh intensity in our own moment.
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsbyhave something to say to us in 2025.
Recall that the novel takes place in the summer of 1922 on Long Island and in New York City — a city that was then the center for contemporary debates about the threat of foreign influences, so-called racial "pollution," and the ascendance of the liberated "new woman," embodied in the novel by the professional golfer, Jordan Baker.