The Great Gatsby

what d'you think about this book? It's another one I have to read for school

 

I liked the book but it was hard to get through the first few chapters.

 

Honestly, it's one of my favorite pieces of American literature. All you have to do is adjust the fashion and economy and it will always apply, because it represents so many truly American archetypes. I recommend really getting into it.

 

Loved the book. I really enjoyed Fitzgerald's writing.

 

Whats the book even about????

 

money, infatuation, aspiration, deteriation...

 

I enjoyed The Great Gatsby.

 

I had to read it for school last year. I fell madly in love with it...It was so beautiful how hopefull and idealistic the characters were...I hope you enjoy it.

 

It's just searching for that green light...on so many levels...but it's always just across the water

 

I read the book a couple of years ago, and first off I have to say that I liked the book as a whole but, I absolutely hated ever single character in it. Most of them are so self absorbed that they fail to think outside of themselves, either that or they are too weak to do anything when they realize how everyone else is acting. This is exactly the criticism of the upperclass in the earlier twentieth century that Fitzgerald was attempting to achieve.

 

Yeah, I didn't care much for the characters...they made me sad, now that I think about it. Like George and Myrtle at the gas station...and Tom and Myrtle having an affair. And Tom being such an asshole to Daisy.

 

The characters did make me kind of sad but at the same time I liked them.

 

I wouldn't say I liked them, necessarily, but it was very interesting how they all fit together.

 

I guess I was just in awe of them. Like when Daisy says she hopes her little girl will be a fool...and how they are always wanting more of something.

 

This is one of my favorite books. The characters make me so sad, just how shallow their lives really are...

 

Yeah, when Daisy said she wanted her little girl to be a fool...why did she say that again? I can't remmeber.

 

If I remember correctly, and from my English class discussed, Daisy said she wanted her daughter to be a fool so that when she met a man and married him she'd be totally clueless if he had an affair with some other girl. See, Daisy knows about the affair and wishes she was a 'fool' so that she wouldn't understand and would be ahppy anyhow. So that's why she wnats her daughter to be a fool, so then she doesn't go through the same misery that Daisy ehrself is going through. Make sense?

I felt sorry for Gatsby. I really did. My heart goes out to that guy. I understand how it feels to wait years and years for something you want so bad to come back to you and realize that it'll never happen. So I liked, and understood, Gastby the most in this book. Nick was my second favorite character. Overall it was a very good book and Fitzgerald was a brilliant writer in my opinion!

 

I started The Great Gatsby, but I couldn't get very far.

I wish I had.

Especially since many piercing quotes from Fitzgerald were voiced to great effect in a PBS documentary about the '20s in New York.

To know that generation, born in a horse and carriage Victorian Age, and who in the prime of life, find themselves in the neon-lights of a towering Brave New World, is critical if we wish to know ourselves.

 

One of my favorites. Fitzgerald employs such symbolism and allegory as I should hope to include in my own writing, one day.

 

I liked the book a little bit, but I hated the movie! I found the story kind of boring at parts though.