Jay Gatsby β James Gatz of North Dakota who reinvented himself as a mysterious millionaire to win back the woman he loved β is the definitive American archetype: the self-made man whose dream is simultaneously beautiful and corrosive. His destruction by the careless rich who use and discard him makes him the most searching character study of the American Dream in literature.

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