I can understand that sometimes a book is not agreeable to everybody who raeds it. To me, you seem to be a motivated and intelligent person. However it is not always wise to feed the more lazy parasites who will simple feed off of the work that you provide for them. As i already know, this is entirely your decision, but in order to gain a complete understanding and in order to learn how to analyse literature fully, people need to learn to do some of the work themselves.
At first read TGG was EXTREMELY boring particularly chp 1. Gradual studying of each chapter in brief I have found the book to be quite enthralling. Fitzgerald's portrayal of America in the 1920s and how it is today is almost identical. The extravagance, waste and arrogance of the rich is typical of American high-fliers. After reading the book I thought what a cold cow Daisy is and for all Tom's arrogance, thuggery and ill-treatment of the women in his life he is not as bad as Daisy. For heavens sake Gatsby was killed because of her and she could not even honour his memory by attending his funeral. She retreated back into her safe, little, rich, pretentious world as if Gatsby never even existed. Sometimes women are worst then men Daisy a classic example of this.
fitzgerald's ideas on his being torn between the capitalist society in which he lives and the great change in society in which he knows must happen in society. this is all made clear in his magnificent dealings with the class struggles in the nivel between the vulgar new money and the sophisticated old money and the american dream placed right smack dab in the middle, but somehow distorted. good stuff.
I hate the book it is confusing and boring. I don't know why its such a great <br>classic.were do you get this stuff from.
Great Gatsby is by the most unentertaining book ever. I mean if there are people who LIKE reading boring books, this is a great one for you. But as a high school student who has to READ this omissive book for Winter Break is horrible and a pain. I advise anyone who likes to read more adventurous books to skip Great Gatsby or at least rent the movie to finish up any projects or essays.
I didn't think that The Great Gatsby was that bad. I am reading it for College Prep English. It gets a little confusing and jumps around a bit you have to take your time and soak it all in, and maybe re-read a chaper or two! All and all it wasn't a horrable book, but then again I don't read very often
It was an awful book. You see, English is not my native language and thing like that are really boring. Characters' speech is frequently not fluent. They say things which are not connected to the rest of their speech or do not belong to the conversation. The story is good but the characters' charecters and the overwhelming descriptions are what bother me! My advice is to watch the movie and prevent yourself from being teased by such a book!
The Great Gatsby is an absolute classic. I am in 11th grade and have been assigned to read this novel, and it is by far one of the greater novels I have ever read. It represents the "American Dream". To Gatsby, this was to win his love, Daisy, back. She was a superficial woman who didn't know much of what love really was. Gatsby was a great character. His whole life was devoted to Daisy, but Daisy..just as the other rich of that time, was reckless, careless, and cared only about wealth. Also, Nick did not wake up with a man..In order to fully understand this book, you have to look beyond the text. You have to understand what the American Dream is...I suggest everyone should read The Great Gatsby..It is an EXCELLENT piece of work.
i loved this book. i didnt have to read it, it was on my own time and i am happy to say that i am glad someone wrote such great litieture
I am being forced to read this awful book and then to write an essay about it. It took everything I had to get through it. If you are thinking about reading it I have one piece of advice for you: don't do it.
Does anyone know why Fitzgerald choose to incorporate the cover art into the book????
I don't feel that Gatsby is corrupted. The people who are gluttons, corrupt, vain, are the party goers. The people who live on Gatsby's hospitality and don't show up for his funeral. <br><br>I think Gatsby is a good man with good intentions. He was nice to everyone, even to Tom. He welcomed strangers into his home and was always very polite. That he wanted to steal Daisy from Tom is a non-issue. Daisy wanted to leave, Tom didn't treat her nice, and Gatsby had known her first. <br><br>If Gatsby was guilty of anything it was of being a tad obsessive, but some people just call that love.<br><br>Tom on the other hand was a prick. Daisy was a spoiled brat. Myrtle, even though she was poor, was a snob. And George, well, he was just a man.<br><br>Gatsby though, he only had the best intentions.
I heard the title of this novel in another book. That author regarded it as the best novel he had ever read. And I read its Chinese version first. I think it's nothing much. But after I read the English version, I feel I can't agree with him more. It's so great. It describs a love story in such a beautiful way that I have never seen. And it's not just about love. It reveals the true color of American Dream which I, as a Chinese, have misunderstood for a long time.<br>It's not a dream about success and wealth. Instead it's a dream of finding ourselves. Who are we?Where do we come from? What do we live for? Gatsby, for his all life, are pursuing the things he is longing for. Daisy is just the name of the dream. The green light is just the reminder of his dream. Gatsby is really great as the title indicates. He never gives up his dream even after Daisy betrays him and retreats to her husband. And he shoulder the responsibility of killing Mytle. This is the greatness of Gatsby as well as the novel. The American dream never ceases.
What I find interesting about the character of Jordan Baker is her intentions. She is described as "incurably dishonest". Given this, Roger Lewis believes that Jordan should know a liar when she hears one. If we accept this, Jordan hooks up Daisy with Gatsby knowing fully that he is not what he claims to be.<br> To this end, Jordan is a bit of a cipher. Her true intentions are unclear. Is she attempting to damage Daisy's social status in order to climb over her on the ladder, or is she lashing out at Tom for disapproving of her freedom? Perhaps, if you accept the thesis that Jordan is like a female version of Nick, perhaps (like Nick) she is looking for a show. Just as Gatsby essentially becomes a performer for Nick, perhaps Jordan is looking for Daisy to become a performer for her.
The Great Gatsby has a unique literary context when compared to not only other works of literature, but to other products of the popular media.<br> Lately, I've been pondering a comparison between The Great Gatsby and The Crow. Both movies seem to have many common themes. Like The Great Gatsby, The Crow is predominately interested in the differences between two different worlds: that of the haves and that of the havenots.<br> In Gatsby, it is a case of having or not having money, having or not having love, having or not having courage, or any number of other things. In The Crow, it is a case of having or not having love, having or not having power, having or not having compassion, and, also, many other things.<br> The Great Gatsby is concerned predominately with the upper class areas of East Egg, and (to a lesser extent) West Egg, while The Crow is mostly concerned with inner city Detroit, a sort of modern day valley of ashes. The failure of the american dream (which is a popular interpretation of Gatsby) can also be applied to The Crow. While Gatsby only wants Daisy Buchannen, Eric Draven and Shelley Webster only want to be married. Both are denied their greatest desire.<br> The characters of Gatsby and Eric Draven react to this in different ways. However, both must be empowered before they are able to pursue their vindication. Gatsby is empowered by Wolfsheim and the Jewish Mafia. Eric Draven is empowered by supernatural means, but the result is the same: the both make a daring attempt to attain what they need.<br> This is where one would think that the two works begin to differentiate. While Gatsby continues to strive for Daisy, it seems that Draven begins to strive for revenge. However, it is stated over and over again in the movie that Draven needs justice in order to be at peace, and rest. In other words, Draven must assure that justice is done in order to be with Shelley.<br> The big difference in this theme between the two works is that, in the end, Draven attains his goal, and Gatsby does not. While Draven and Shelley have had to lose their lives in order to be together, they are still together at the end, and that is important to remember. Gatsby never attains Daisy, and, soon after, he dies for her (albeit, not by an act of his own commission).<br> Another notable difference between the two works is that, in The Crow, justice is done for the work's victims: Eric and Shelley are revenged, and Sarah (a victim of a different variety) is reunited with her mother. In Gatsby, there is no justice for Gatsby; there is no justice for George or Myrtle Wilson. The guilty are allowed to go unfree, untouched by the consequences of their actions.<br> More parallels can be drawn between the works as you examine the themes of them. In both, innocent (or at least relatively so) people are drawn in, corrupted, and often destroyed by their surroundings. While drugs, crime and despair destroy the denizens of The Crow's motor city, excess, debauchery, and carelessness corrupt the denizens of East Egg. Many of those who have been corrupted so (Daisy, Jordan Baker) have become irredeemably corrupted.<br> Just a few thoughts.<br> Until next time, kiddies,<br> BANG!<br> Patrick Ross<br> a.k.a. Kid Cash
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