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The book is about Jay Gatsby’s life and how is is trying to pursue the American Dream. It is set during the Roaring Twenties, in 1922. Because the book is about wealth, money, and one's position in society, consumer objects play a big role in the story. Characters' choices of clothes, cars, and homes say a lot about them and serve as symbols. One of the central symbolic objects is Gatsby's house. The word 'house' is the most frequently used word in the book, appearing 95 times. In the first chapter, Gatsby's house is memorably described by Nick Carraway, who is the narrator of the story and lives in a much smaller house next door: 'The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard--it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.' Gatsby's house is notorious for its lavish and raucous parties: 'There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue garden men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Gatsby's house is symbolically important for its location. A large part of the book takes place on the twin peninsulas of West Egg, where Gatsby and Nick live, and East Egg, where Tom and Daisy Buchanan live. Gatsby's mansion symbolizes two broader themes of the novel. First, it represents the grandness and emptiness of the 1920s boom: Gatsby justifies living in it all alone by filling the house weekly with "celebrated people." Second, the house is the physical symbol of Gatsby's love for Daisy. Jordan even tells Nick in Chapter 3 that Gatsby only bought the house to be across the bay from Daisy.

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