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The Great Gatsby turns 100 this year, but its tale of doomed love and ambition was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s own teenage heartbreak after being rejected by a rich debutante

Gatsby’s lavish parties and obsessive pursuit of love mirror Fitzgerald’s real-life struggle with class, insecurity and the painful gap between who he was and who he hoped to become

Decades after their split, Fitzgerald met his former muse one final time — and the disastrous reunion helped inspire one of his last published stories before his early death at 44

This spring marks 100 years since the debut of The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critique of the American Dream set amid the champagne-soaked excess of the 1920s. A pillar of American literature and popular culture alike, the nove

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