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really fun read, definitely one of my favorite classics and one that i had to read for school (  ) Aubslynn22 | May 2, 2022 |  I decided to read this book this month and it didn't disappoint me. This one is a really interesting perspective of the 30's in New York. It also does a good representation of obsession and money can be an excuse for bad behavior. I really recommend it to people who like historical fiction. ( ) Hanna_Rybchynska | Apr 29, 2022 | Bah. Living in a Bubble w/lyrics by Eiffel 65 sets up the meaning of this book nicely, I think: We live in a bubble baby. A bubble's not reality. You gotta have a look outside. Nothing in a bubble is the way it's supposed to be, and when it blows you'll hit the ground. We live in a bubble baby, but it's not the place to be cause it's a place of lies and hype. Don't believe the bubble cause it's nothing but a dream, and when it blows you'll be alone. Oh yeah Told from Nick Carraway's point of view, we're introduced to the empty world inhabited by Jay Gatsby (aka James Gatz), a made(up) man, who spends his money in a show of conspicuous consumption in an attempt to win the heart of the girl he loved shortly before the War (WWI), Daisy Buchanan. Unfortunately, she's married in the interval to Tom Buchanan, a man who comes from the same wealth and class background that Daisy springs from. She and Tom understand each other very well. She turns a somewhat blind eye to his infidelity and he assumes she loves him in some manner. Tom is a brute though, so I really don't get why any woman would want him, to be honest. Daisy's insensitive to other people's feelings so, I guess they're perfect for each other. (can you tell I really don't care about these people?) Gatsby never gets it though. He's looking for the solid, wholesome, lovely girl he thought he fell in love with, but that Daisy is smoke, insubstantial, and, in all probability, never really existed. She does, however, have a hard cold core of steel of one who can take her revenge out on Tom's mistress and never turn a hair. In all honesty, I still don't understand what drives English teachers to stuff this down their student's throats. It's a boring book at best, full of nonsensical flowery language that puts one to sleep (I nearly did fall asleep on the first disc - not a good thing when driving!). Yep, we get a glimpse of an era that doesn't exist anymore, when money seemed flow like water, or the booze that snuck in over the border, when flappers danced, and the whole world (or, at least, the US) seemed to be at the top of its game. Yep, we get to see empty people living empty lives doing empty things (that whole wasted day in the hotel room in which tempers flared), but all you have to do these days is turn on the TV for that (Real Housewives, anyone?). In the end, I think it all comes down to one's preference. The Great Gatsby to me is not so great. (  )1  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 | A really good book. I honestly hated it until the very last chapter, then I hated it was over! Such a good book, and before you know it, you really do care what happens to everyone. (  ) Bookslesstravelled | Apr 15, 2022 | The Great Gatsby is a classic for a reason. I read this in middle school, and I enjoyed it. I know that there has been a movie adaptation out for a while now but I was one of the readers before it was released. It is an interesting story of requited love and it takes place in New York during the Roaring 20s. For those that have only watched The Great Gatsby movie, I would recommend going back and reading this too. ( ) douglasedrich | Apr 11, 2022 |
 The Great Gatsby is a romance novel that written by American Author F.Scott Fitzgerald.This novel is talk about the New Yorker in 1900s.The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel full of triumph and tragedy.Nick Carraway is the narrator, or storyteller, of The Great Gatsby, but he is not the story's protagonist, or main character. Instead, Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of the novel that bears his name. Tom Buchanan is the book's antagonist, opposing Gatsby's attempts to get what he wants: Tom's wife Daisy. The weakness of this book is they using the classic languange and a little difficult to understand.The weakness also about Gatsby affection to Daisy,He spends that money on lavish parties in the hopes that she will show up.When she finally spends time with him, for the first time in many years, he naively believes that she will leave Tom for him but,unfortunately she is not. However,the strength of this book is the writer are using the unique title so the reader are feel sympathy and curious about it, also the characteristic about Jay Gatsby that teach the reader many lesson. To conclude,this book is the very recommended book,especially High School students because Fitzgerald’s novel is a portal to the savage heart of the human spirit, and wonders at our enormous capacity to dream, to imagine, to hope and to persevere. The great Gatsby is truly a romance book like no other.F.SCOTT.Switzgerald describing about the life of New Yorker in 1900s.This novel is very popular many students if high school are required by their teachers to read this book.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a young man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the book’s author.As ive read about this book,Gatsby’s personality was nothing short of “gorgeous.” moreover,the weakness about this book is hard to understand if u are not really pay attention on it.this novel is about a contradiction,Gatsby's idealism makes him blind.He doesn't see that Daisy can't have love and money, just money. Gatsby can't turn back time.He even doesn't see death coming toward him. However,the strength of this book something quite different from others,it is the charm and beauty of writing,has many important meanings that should be learned early on in life. To conclude,what i can say is don't be too obsessed just because you have so much money,money ain't last forever.but overall its a magnificent,fantastically, entertaining and enthralling story.  "The Great Gatsby" is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that What gives the story distinction is something quite different from the management of the action or the handling of the characters; it is the charm and beauty of the writing.  I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent; I think we kid ourselves about the lessons it contains. None of this would matter much to me if Gatsby were not also sacrosanct. There is the convoluted moral logic, simultaneously Romantic and Machiavellian, by which the most epically crooked character in the book is the one we are commanded to admire. There’s the command itself: the controlling need to tell us what to think, both in and about the book. There’s the blanket embrace of that great American delusion by which wealth, poverty, and class itself stem from private virtue and vice. There’s Fitzgerald’s unthinking commitment to a gender order so archaic as to be Premodern: corrupt woman occasioning the fall of man. There is, relatedly, the travesty of his female characters—single parenthesis every one, thoughtless and thin. (Don’t talk to me about the standards of his time; the man hell-bent on being the voice of his generation was a contemporary of Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, not to mention the great groundswell of activists who achieved the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Yet here he is in A Short Autobiography: “Women learn best not from books or from their own dreams but from reality and from contact with first-class men.”) It is an impressive accomplishment. And yet, apart from the restrained, intelligent, beautifully constructed opening pages and a few stray passages thereafter—a melancholy twilight walk in Manhattan; some billowing curtains settling into place at the closing of a drawing-room door—Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like one of those manicured European parks patrolled on all sides by officious gendarmes, it is pleasant to look at, but you will not find any people inside. Indeed, The Great Gatsby is less involved with human emotion than any book of comparable fame I can think of. None of its characters are likable. None of them are even dislikable, though nearly all of them are despicable. They function here only as types, walking through the pages of the book like kids in a school play who wear sashes telling the audience what they represent: OLD MONEY, THE AMERICAN DREAM, ORGANIZED CRIME. 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After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits. No library descriptions found. |
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