Facts about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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   Across the bay from Gatsby's mansion, a faded billboard depicting the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg serves as one of the novel's most debated symbols.

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   F. Scott Fitzgerald reportedly disliked several proposed titles before settling on The Great Gatsby, and his editor Maxwell Perkins played a key role in shaping the final manuscript.

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   Jay Gatsby's real name is James Gatz, a detail that reveals the constructed, self-invented nature of his identity.

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   The novel's narrator, Nick Carraway, is Daisy Buchanan's cousin and a Yale graduate who moves to West Egg to work in the bond business.

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   Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is set during the summer of 1922 on Long Island and in New York City.

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