The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that “of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about.” And that’s continued in the popular mind for nearly a century. (The idea of a Gatsby-themed party, after all, seems pretty wrongheaded once you think about the actual character.) Will the new adaptations — a miniseries, graphic novels, stage works, books written from the points of view of characters other than Gatsby or narrator Nick Carraway — get things right? – BBC