A few years ago, an author named Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a captivating book, in the 1920s. This book was called The Great Gatsby. The book has been a tempting read for many decades. At the time the book was written, American society was falling apart. The central theme of The Great Gatsby seems to be one of the most discussed and analyzed topics in literature. Why is the topic so criticized? Is it because there are multiple themes in the story? Maybe it's because no one really knows and critics are taking a really great story and overthinking it. Perhaps Fitzgerald was extremely tired of the way American society behaved and giving them a dose of reality. The American dream and all its superficiality/corruption that encompasses the idea. The extreme amounts of nativism displayed in this particular era could be brought to light. So many conflicted people trying to realize a dream, too ambitious to be achieved by honest means. The many aspects that The Great Gatsby has to offer are encouraging and have many interpretations. Very often, people assume that literary devices in fictional stories are created to provide structure. To explore the topic, one of the UC Davis researchers is discovering how curiosity helps humans learn. “Curiosity can put the brain in a state that allows it to learn and retain any kind of information, like a vortex that sucks in what you are motivated to learn, as well as everything around it” (Mathiass Gruber). Most stories like The Great Gatsby have left readers wondering detail after detail. Since then, the theme has been widely debated and is widely recognized as iconic. One is to believe that this was done on purpose, with scientific evidence. Every twist and turn of the plot keeps the readers highly curious and in a state of captivity. Usually, a good, interesting book will be read and reread, leaving readers wanting to read more. The Great Gatsby didn't have a sequel, but it left readers to deduce what the sequel is