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In the 1920s the famous prohibition mobster, Al Capone, became one of America’s most notorious crime icons. Perhaps he learned his ways from Jay Gatsby—a fictional bootlegger during the same time period. Perhaps not. Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald got his inspiration from Al Capone when writing The Great Gatsby. Either way, The Great Gatsby has proved to be a great American novel—with its dynamic cast of characters, rich symbolism, portrayal of the speakeasy life, and a catastrophic love triangle. It is set in the east coast near New York in the 1920s. Gatsby is a mysterious man from the Midwest who creates himself an image of wealth and prosperity and eventually reaches his goal through bootlegging alcohol. He lives across from Daisy—his long lost love— who