Jane Ammeson Times Correspondent
One hundred years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a book about the rich and the restless as seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, who has broken away from the family’s lucrative hardware business in the Midwest to try to make it in the bond business in New York City.
The book, “The Great Gatsby,” was made into four movies, including the 1974 film starring Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful, flirtatious belle trapped in an unhappy marriage, and the 2013 version with Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby and Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson, the mistress of Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan.
If a hundred-year-old novel might seem dated, then read it after watching “The White Lotus” or shows of the ilk. Their clothes and the cars they