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  1. #226
    Christina
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    Gatsby

    So, I had to read this book now, and I have to write five essays on it. 1) Personality of all characters 2) sympathy towards someone in the end , who is that? 3) attitude towards wealth and sex...I think its crazy!!!I like the book, but Im not very good at anylze .

  2. #227
    Mishari Al Adwani
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    The Great Gatsby

    I am a High School student in Egypt, who was assigned to read The Great Gatsby for my English class. It wasn't a hard book to understand or read but i didn't like it. There were something that got my attention a couple of times, like the advice Nick's father said " Just Remeber that not all the people had the same advantages as you did". And I think the way Gatsby died sends an obvious message that Money cannot buy happiness and that you can repeat the past!

  3. #228
    HemANT
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    to cut a long story short, this is an absolutely fantastic book. fitzgerald writes with excellant ease to captivate and emphasise the death of the American Dream using gatsby as the fallen hero. brillant reading old sport

  4. #229
    Roel
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    WOW

    I think that Fintzgerald clearly indicated the feeling and the tone of the "Roaring Twenties". I think the way all the characters were portrayed were just a work of genius. I had to read the book for my english 3 class and I can say that all though it started off rather boring at the end it payed off. Although the movie is almost word for word as the book nothing can come pair imagination of the human mind.<br>

  5. #230
    iggy
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    tgg

    this book was so, so it had far too many boring moments and meaningless scenes, basically it shows us an example of how stupid a man is when he is in love with a women. the opening qoute of the book tells you everything, if anything we should praise gatsby for working his *** off to get all his riches just to get to gatsby, if you take deep thought into this book you realize alot of things that humans do carelessly... dont read this book unless you have ALOT of free time or unless you have too.

  6. #231
    Casey
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    Just wondering...

    I've just finished this book for English honors, and I'm wondering if anyone else disliked Nick as much as I did. He seemed so fake to me, and all through the book, he describes Jay and Daisy and everyone so eloquently and as such a dream world, yet he also expects us to see through his words and hate the world he's just decribed. I loved the book - except for Nick.

  7. #232
    rach
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    Question

    How many times has the "Great Gatsby" been re-written.<br>Personaly I thought the book was alright.<br>Those who don't understand the book choose to do so.<br>The litriture was very intricate and a change from the 'generic' style writing that many authors seem to use these days!<br>The book is still relevent today.<br>I enjoyed the book and will read it again.

  8. #233
    Anonymous
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    The Great Gatsby

    Well I had to read The Great Gatsby for English class. The reason that our English teacher made us read it is because she said that it was a classic. I could agree with her on some of it. At the beggining of the book it was boring and I kept on falling asleep. But whenever it got to the action than that was when I got interested. Some what. It's not at the top of my list to just sit down and read but, it was a pretty intertaining book, even for a classic.

  9. #234
    reachone
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    compared to carver

    I.m Korean(and so not good at English, plz take it natural). <br>I've read this novel for 2 weeks in commuting train. <br>It was written in 1920's , you know, therefore it was hard for foreigner to interpret in his own language, it is too old-fashioned.<br><br>'Cause I has been reading the novels by Raymond Carver(my favorite author), I couldn't help comparing The Great Gatsby with Carver's ones.<br>As for me, the distinguish difference between two sides is the economic circumstances surronding the characters.<br>In the Great Gatsby, the persons are not worring about money, they just order the butlers, nurses and drivers what they want...<br>Their souls was corrupted by non-labor life. <br>If Gatsby didn't get much money, (perhaps) he would remain a dreamer who did not stand on abstract concept(blind love)...<br><br>ps: I am not a North Korean ^^

  10. #235
    mrs. amaro
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    right now I am currently on the part of the book where Mrs. Wilson was run over. this book is some real bush. I can't stand it and i think that it is one of the worst books that I have ever read. Nick carraway to me seems to be one of those people that to come up with theories (that in actuality seem very stupid). He keeps coming up with theories on people that seem........ insensible. The only thing that I believe is good about this book is the drama between Gatsby and Daisy. Another thing that is good about this book is that it uses alot of vocabulary words that I don't know.

  11. #236
    Scale Enlie
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    essay

    The Great Gatsby Analyzed<br>Pages 146-148<br>Nobody changes through the story. Except Nick of course, who unlike the others matures to a certain degree. At the start of the novel, Nick comments on how “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” At the end of the novel, Nick has overcome this false image of himself as being “one of the few honest men I (he) knew” Nick gives up hope of Tom ever changing and judges him. We see this when he refuses the handshake. It is an entirely accurate judgment that is described, describing Tom and Daisy as being careless, reckless, destructive people.<br>Tom is a lying, deceitful, dishonest person. Nick knew that Tom had sent Wilson to kill Gatsby. Tom responds by saying “I told him the truth.” This is ironic because not only was Tom wrong when he told Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car, but also because it sums up the destruction of truth that Tom projects throughout the rest of the novel. Tom doesn’t know the meaning of truth. Or what is right. He sent someone to be killed, justifying it by saying “That fellow had it coming to him... he ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never bothered to stop his car.” The irony exists because that is exactly the mentality that Daisy (who was actually driving the car) and Tom have. “They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or vast carelessness.” It is further enhanced by the fact that the reason Myrtle was killed was because she ran out thinking it was Tom driving the car. “It all happened in a minute,” Gatsby described the scene to Nick, “but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, though we were somebody she knew.”<br> Jordan doesn’t change at all through the novel. When she makes the comment about her bad driving, and that it wouldn’t matter unless she met another bad driver, that displays quite clearly her lack of maturity and her inability to take responsibility for her actions. Even at the end of the novel, when her relationship with Nick falls apart she is unable to take any responsibility for its demise. “Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I?” She offloads everything onto Nick. In a way she keeps that comment as a comeback for everything that happens to her in her life.<br>Gatsbys great dream was never fulfilled. Not only did Gatsby not change throughout the entire novel, but also he didn’t change throughout his entire life. Gatsby is still the lovesick child he was years ago. Gatsby is a very sad character that died in a very un-heroic, and ultimately pathetic way. In a roundabout way he was killed by Daisy. This is displayed when Gatsby is standing outside the Buchcanans house “watching over” Daisy. Tom and Daisy are described as conspiring in there together. Now one of two things happen, either Daisy told Tom that she was the one driving and they sold Gatsby out by allowing him to be shot by Wilson, or through her immaturity, she didn’t tell Tom and knowingly allowed Tom to send Wilson to kill Gatsby. Either way, Daisy was using Gatsby to avoid guilt. Of course that is what Gatsby wanted. “Of course I’ll say I was (driving).” The fact that Gatsby allowed himself to be used makes Gatsby even more pathetic. Gatsby changed himself from a poor kid in to rich classy guy, that makes him “Great”. The fact that he could hold up such a disguise for song long is “Great”. He is a gangster, and that is really “Great”. But the fact that he did it all because he held onto such a pathetic, outdated emotion is not “Great”. It is sad. Gatsby is only “great” in the sense of size and fame, not in the sense that he is wonderful.<br>

  12. #237
    Jeanne
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    The Great Gatsby

    I am really enjoying the book so far it seems pretty interesting, i am only on chapter 4 though i just started it like last friday. I read one chapter a day and the chapters are pretty long like 20 pages at least. F. Scott. Fitzgerald is a nice writer. Oh i am reading the book for an english class. I heard the book was great.

  13. #238
    sadia
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    This Book is so confusing in a way.

    The novel was hard to understand, It most likely represented the corruption of the american dream. Because reality can not keep up with ideals. and all Gatsby did was imitate the the lifestyle of the "old money" people. Even though he symbolized the american dream, It takes lifetime and effort to reach the oppertunity of the wealthy people. If you noticed at the end of the chapter, Daisy and tom escaped from the corruption of the american dream. Whereas Myrtle and Gatsby died from it. I also realized that Gatsby didnt believe the fact that the past was gone. So the reason why he failed was because of their difference in their social status.

  14. #239
    Stephen Wood
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    Gatsby? The American Dream?

    Because no serious scholar I know of has dissented from the view that Gatsby is about the death of the American dream, I'd like to put forward an opposing notion: that Gatsby isn't about the American dream at all, and that the fact that this view of the novel has been passed down to a generation of students is more reflective of the ideological commitments of English professors than of anything that can be textually supported by the novel itself.<br><br>No version of the American Dream of which I'm aware involves standing at the top of a flight of stairs and looking down impassively as scores of people you don't know get drunk on your lawn. You could rejoin that Gatsby is a distortion of the American Dream, but shucks, everything can be viewed as a distortion of the thing that it isn't, so if that's Fitzgerald's thrust, it's a banal one.<br><br>But I don't believe that is Fitzgerald's thrust. I think Fitzgerald is more focused on the plight of romantics in the world (and about the seeming impermeability of class boundaries).<br>

  15. #240
    text. Even the colours of the cars are representiv
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    text. Even the colours of the cars are representive of peoples changing att

    text. Even the colours of the cars are representive of peoples changing attitudes. The brightness of Gatsby's car causes it to seem gawdy and excessive, as is much of what the commercial industry was turning out at the time. This same car killed Myrtle, displaying the corruption caused by it's excess. Furthermore, perhaps the commercial car killing Myrtle suggests that perhaps commercialism was killing off her stereotype in all women at that time?<br><br>These were just a few ideas that don't seem to have been suggested as yet. I believe that people will understand this point

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