Great Gatsby Review

[Amy]

I thought that the Great Gatsby was an okay book. Before I read it everyone commeneted on how great it was, but really it did not live up to my expectations at all. For one. I didn't really understand what the purpose of having Jordan Baker in the novel at all besides to tell Nick the story behind Gatsby's love for Daisy. Fitzgerald didn't do a good job in describing as nothing much else besides a Golf player. Throughtout the novel I found myslef wondereing who she really was supposed to be, and one of the reasons i love to read is because I love to understand the charectors and relate to them. A good author should describe them more vivdly.

[Zee]

It seems to me that everyone i know likes the book the great gatsby, but on a personal level i did not like it. In my opinion it could have been a lot better. It does do a good job on depicted Amercan people but was that the books main purpose? It's hard to tell what kind of readers Fitzgerald is trying to get to read his book. But it's very popular so i guess it reacehs out to a lot of people.

[Unregistered]

The Great Gatsby, I thought, was a fine masterpiece done by Fitzgerald. Read it for my junior year in high school and I thought it was a great book. What's interesting about the book, is that it's based on Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald asked a woman to marry him and she turned him dowm, because he was poor. In the book, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby and Daisy to play as him and the woman he fell in love with.

[snildopholus]

Personally, I think that this book is too boring and too deep for a normal High School student to enjoy. Had I been assigned this book later in my life such as 12th grade or later, I may have actually enjoyed this book, but since i was forced to read it in the 9th grade, I will never like it. I think that it is a good book for more mature readers, but it will never be taken seriously or taken to heart if students are forced to read this book at a young age. <br><br>This book may have been enjoyable, but now i will never want to read it again.

[Unregistered]

I thought perhaps I had missed something in my reading of tgg. surely there must be some underlying messages i wasn't able to discern. so, i surf the net for some analyses. no, i didn't miss anything. there's simply not a lot to this book. perhaps the style is what makes so many ppl speak so highly of it. as far as substance though it's a drop in the bucket. good for high school students i suppose.

[vanney]

i've just finished reading "The Great Gatsby" and i personally think it is a book written extremely well by Fitzgerald, but one has to bring up the discussion of Gatsby and Daisy's relationship? When reading through some other comments everyone stated how pure Gatsby's love was for Daisy, but i'd have to say otherwise. i feel gatsby only wanted Daisy to love him so they could get married and fulfill the American dream - that is of being one of wealth, high status, and marriage. Gatsby wasn't so much in love with Daisy, but instead full of all possessions. He has the house, the money, now all he needs is the woman. Also, by having Daisy he would feel superior to Tom (one who has everything). so maybe Gatsby wasnt' so much in love with Daisy, but instead in love with the idea of having Daisy and everything else that would provide him with the american dream. Please reply i wanna know what you think! thankz!

[Anonymous]

While I am grade twelve, I was not forced to read this book, I did so on my own. I found it to be a truly excellent piece of literature. I can't see how anyone who appreciates good writing could possibly have found TGG boring. There are a lot of other 'classics' that are much, much more boring. I found Great Gatsby fairly easy to understand, I loved the characters and Fitzgerald's style of writing... two thumbs up for The Great Gatsby!!

[Kate]

The matter of the fact is that The Great Gatsby is one of the most revered books in American literature. Why I don't quite understand. While near the end with the death of Myrtle, and the sudden change in attitude of Jordan the book does take an interesting twist. Why I must say I did enjoy the book, it wasn't one that I would care to read again. It was very confusing at times. After finishing the book I had to go back to the beginning and reread it. And sure enough it made a lot more sense once I reread it. So I recommend to anyone who reads it to go back over the text once you finish it will help you so much with your comprehension of the story and make you enjoy it that much more.

[Unregistered]

i thought the story was quite boring, Fitzgerald uses great language, of course, but the story was missing something. All these questions go unanswered. How did Gatsby really make his money? Who helped him?

[Unregistered]

I loved this book, I understand why fitzegarld called gatsby "the great" , he symbolizes the american dream and its tragic failure in the roaring twenties, he's the less corrupted in this book, he loves daisy from the start and he's doesn't change trough all the book, he stay this mysterious character .<br>I think that all the readers have loved him, there was something pure about him, though he was a bootlegger. A kind of kindness? he's a pathetic character.<br>when tom wins daisy back, gatsby hasen't any reason to live any more, that's why he died in the 8th chapter.<br>

[Rya]

I also read it for english. Its a great book full of romance and suspense. I love it!

[Unregistered]

The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece of Fitzgerald. Through this book he expands and enhances our viewof the Jazz age into more than just a period of time but into a society, which had its highlights and shortcomings. <br>Fitzgeralds uses cars as symbolism for many different aspects of the society at the time such as how the wealthy are shown to be selfish as they only car forthemselves as they drive about recklesly.

[Unregistered]

I am a sixth form student who is studying "The Great Gatsby" as part of my A level course. I really enjoyed the book and find that analysing it in class brings attention to things I hadn't even noticed. Fitzgeralds attention to detail is what makes this book so successful. However our essay title is about the different narrative techniques used in the novel and i am having difficulty on what to write i don't see how i can write a hole essay purely about narrative technique! Any comments u have on this asect of the book i'd be really grateful to hear!!! thanks

[holley]

The Great Gatsby is one of the best books I've read. The characters symbolize america during the" the roaring twenties and I felt like I had read something that was real not just in some author's mind

[Unregistered]

The Great Gatsby the glorious American novel, embodies all that is wrong with America, it is in it’s self an inadequately written novel. Nick as a narrator never comes close to satisfying the readers needs to have an unbiased and free flowing story. As acclaimed as the novel is the story starts off slow and goes down hill from there, with a few exceptions the story and it’s narrator never manage to grasp the attention of the reader long enough to express the true meaning of the novel. If one wants to comprehend the dialogue in the novel the reader must read with a careful eye, for it format is less than savory. Gatsby with it’s long drawn out chapters with mindless chirping, like a flock of birds perched in a tree migrating south with the readers mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s experience of love makes the story irritable to comprehend, he writes about a love that is untrue to everyone other than himself and because of that, the story lacks the ability to captivate. Love is not the only problem in the book, the books lacks character, events are uneventful, Fitzgerald did not give Nick the proper language to capture the true essence of what the great Gatsby is all about.