As film and television become increasingly more popular in the modern culture, the appreciation of literature and reading is disappearing. However, Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 modern take on the “The Great Gatsby” was a fairly successful attempted to restore and respect the classic canonical text. F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for writing The Great Gatsby (1925), a dispassionate account reflecting the decadence and corruption that engulfed America in the 1920s, before the Great Depression(intext). The book’s themes of unattainable love, longing for the past, and wealth acting as both a facade and a security blanket aren’t specific to the 1920s, with Gatsby’s story being as relevant today as it was when written. This is because it explores the universal
