The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was his most successful novel. The novel setting was set in 1922, during the Roaring 20 which, is also called the Jazz Age. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the American Dream and its death inside his novel, The Great Gatsby, by using literary devices and symbols, such as the green light in the story. In the novel, Gatsby was a wealthy man, which is doing illegal business, was the main character of the story. Most of the novel, The Great Gatsby