"It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."
— The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed and Adapted by Kelvin Grullon
Performed by Bryce Foley
Literature to Life adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. The Great Gatsby takes place on Long Island and New York City in the early twentieth century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, “old money” versus “new money” ideology, gender, race, environmentalism, and the price of the American Dream.
The Story
The story follows midwestern WWI veteran Nick Carraway, who moves to New York City in search of employment after the war in the Roaring 20s. He is soon pulled into the world of the rich and powerful by way of his cousin and her husband, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and by Nick's mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Considered to be one of the great American novels, The Great Gatsby is about the privilege and pitfalls each character encounters as they each reach for their own “green light.”
Appropriate for: middle / high school, college, and community audiences