How The Great Gatsby is even more relevant nowadays.

Is the masterpiece a reflection of our society’s lack of evolution or a timeless novel built with criticisms that remain relevant today because it talks mainly about characteristics of human beings that will always prevail in our personality, such as ego, futility, and greed?.

The premise is the story of young James Gatz (yes, his name isn’t Gatsby). A young man of humble origins who has an intense romance with a high-society girl from Louisville, Kentucky. The romance is practically impossible due to their social differences. After Gatsby leaves for the First World War and the two are forced to separate permanently, they end their romance, but not without both leaving traces of this love on each other, especially for James, who has been planning to win Daisy back for years.

After acquiring a fortune that has never been concretely revealed and sometimes even described as possibly illegal, James takes on the role of Jay Gatsby. He reinvents himself, as part of his process of reconstruction, of becoming a new man equal to the world into which he seeks to insert himself.

As an initial part of his plan, Gatsby discovers that his beloved is now married to the aristocrat Tom Buchanan, so he buys a huge mansion as close to Daisy as possible, the only thing separating them is a large bay that…