Arlyn Bruccoli Book order (chronological)

Offers a portrait of the author's dying father, as well as a mediation on American history and ambitions on the verge of America's entry into a broadening global conflict.

Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption, the insulated selfishness of Tom and Daisy, and the cutting edge of violence.