Los Angeles is a city in southwestern California, and is located on the Pacific Ocean. In the United States, Los Angeles ranks as the second most populous city in the country, second only after New York City. The city's climate has two seasons only, which are summer and winter. The extr...

Setting: As it Prevails in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel of the 1920's, a time of flamboyance, excessiveness, and ambiguity. To fully capture and document this atmosphere, Fitzgerald spent many a page concerned with detail. Such descriptions become a stimulus for the stor...