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As good as they say. I doubt I had really re-read this since high school -- is that possible? I had forgotten what a nullity Daisy was, how lacking all of the women are, in fact. I suppose I would have to go with the cheating golf pro, if forced to choose...  ben_a | Sep 30, 2023 |  I read this book in high school and did not like it. I remember telling my teacher that I was disappointed she would condone the lifestyle presented therein. She was offended. Now that I've read it again, I can see that misinterpreted the story. However, I also think that my teacher should have been a little more forgiving of a high schooler's difficulty in fully understanding this book. Even now, I had to go read a few sections over again, and even look up ideas from other people online, to fully follow along. Though I can see now that the book is not exactly advocating the way of life of the characters within, I can understand why I thought that way. And I didn't like the book any more now than I did in high school. I did appreciate the vivid and beautiful writing and the immersion in the 1920s, but the story itself was simply unpleasant overall. Whatever commentary it's trying to make on greed, power, social mores, etc., there's nothing here but sad, depraved, depressing, unhappy people and lives. Nothing good comes about at all (which may well be exactly the point, but that doesn't mean I have to like it). I'm not sure exactly who, if anyone, I'm meant to feel for along the way. The narrator himself is the only one who seems remotely down to earth, though he has his own issues. Tom is the very definition of a misogynist. Gatsby is controlling and unable to handle being anything other than the primary focus of the affections of the woman he desires. And Daisy made some bad choices, but that doesn't excuse the men in her life from treating her completely terribly. Whatever merit fans of the book, those who study classics and literature, and high school/college English teachers may see in this book, I personally don't see it as the Great American Novel, nor would I call it a must-read. I listened to the audiobook read by Sean Astin, and while he's a great actor and did some of the dialog really well, he wasn't so great with the narration at times. And overall, he didn't vary his voice with the characters, the main ones especially, nearly as much as I would have liked. (  ) Kristi_D | Sep 22, 2023 | Amazing, obviously. Read for school but will be reading again (  ) fancypengy | Sep 19, 2023 | "The Great Gatsby" is an imperfect tragedy by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story revolves around Jay Gatsby's doomed love for a rich lady called Daisy. The two were in love when he was a poor person, and then she married a rich, strong and boorish husband, At one level, the story depicts the tale of doomed love. I won't say what happened for fear of giving away the end. At another level, it is an excellent portrayal of society, with its snobbishness. People with 'old wealth' consider themselves superior to those with 'new wealth', even if they did nothing to earn the money themselves. Unlike "The Beautiful & The Damned", this book does not portray anyone with any depth. Therefore, for me, it is an imperfect tragedy. (  ) RajivC | Sep 15, 2023 | Since I watched the movie and then read the book, it make much more sense as I am more of a visual learner. The book was good but there were some strong vocabs which was annoying as I constantly had to translate. I did not expect the ending where "someone" took the hit. ( ) RonaldLeong | Sep 14, 2023 |
 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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Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) (Library of America, 353) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Is retold inHas the (non-series) prequelHas the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a concordanceHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable ListsTorchlight List (#77) Waterstones Books of the Century (No 12 – 1997) Геном русской души (49) Голямото четене (57)
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