Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still ...

'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel. ... "Gatsby" has been adapted for movies, plays, a musical and an opera.

That misunderstanding is now pretty much baked into the "Gatsby" brand. Most people now think of "Gatsby" as a loving tribute to the 1920s, a valentine to the era of flappers and flivvers. It was not.

When it was first released, critics loved "The Great Gatsby" — but it went over the heads of readers. The story had better luck as a Broadway play, in 1926. The green light in "Gatsby" has a ...