The Great Gatsby

In this book Fitzgerald thows us back into the 1920s, among new rich people. Thanks to Nick Carraway's perspective that we follow throughout, we attend a capitalist drama with ounces of love and real emotions. It should be read as a colorful satire showing what the interests of 1920s' people were and displaying a surreal and superficial world where money prevails above everything else. Indeed, through personaes like Jay Gatsby or Daisy Buchanan, the author brings out the materialistic pursuits and expensive extravanganza of this newly-established (and not welcomed) social group. A very interesting book demonstrating the effects of WWI on the American bourgeois community.