When The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925 reviews were mixed. H.L. Mencken called it no more than a glorified anecdote. L.P. Hartley author of The GoBetween thought Fitzgerald deserved a good shaking The Great Gatsby is evidently not a satire but one would like to think that Mr Fitzgeralds heart is not in it that it is a piece of mere naughtiness. Yet gradually the book came to be seen as one of the greatest if not the greatest of American novels. Why What is it that makes this stor