In ‘The Great Gatsby’ we are witnesses of the fight for the lovely Daisy Fay between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. But what Scott Fitzgerald – he was only 29 when his novel was published in 1925 – is showing us in that world, is exactly the same as what is happening in the real world we all live in: the eternal struggle with love, sex and lust. The world of the likes of wealthy Russian and Emirati billionaires who buy British football clubs as a sidekick, or of football stars like Lionel Messi who is claimed to have earned 555,237,619 euro in four years’ time. For most of us this is a completely unknown world. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ Scott Fitzgerald plunges his readers into a world of millionaires. Thank you for introducing us that morning Thank you for inviting me to the online meeting on January 29th 2021.
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