F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a timeless 1925 masterpiece that exposes the hollow core of the American Dream through the tragic, obsessive love of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby for the alluring Daisy Buchanan during the roaring Jazz Age. The Jazz Age and IllusionSet in 1922 amidst dazzling parties and bootleg wealth.Masks deep moral decay and social emptiness.Mirrors the fragile heights of pre-Depression America. The American Dream CorruptedGatsby reinvents himself purely to win back a lost past.Wealth becomes a substitute for true human connection.Material success fails to buy genuine class or happiness.