《了不起的盖茨比》奠定了菲茨杰拉德在美国现代文学史上的地位。中西部小子盖茨比到东部闯荡一夕致富，他在自己的豪宅夜夜宴客，遥望着他梦寐以求的女人黛西。盖兹比最后的结局，让他的邻居、也是故事的叙事者尼克对东部浮华的名流生活梦碎，宛如看着繁华楼起再看着它楼塌。(The Great Gatsby determines the position of Fitzgerald in the American history of contemporary literature. Jay Gatsby, a young man from the Mid-west, becomes wealthy almost overnight in the East. He holds extravagant parties in his lavish mansion just to see Daisy in the distance, a girl he loves deeply. The destiny of Gatsby also break the dream of Nick,the narrator of the story, for upper-class life in the East. It is just like a lavish building being built and collapsed.)