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.
I had to read The Great Gatsby for my Liturature class, and the story's good, but it's just Fitzgerald's style of writing that I have a problem with.
I am a highschool student in Texas. We read the novel The Great Gatsby. I think that it was a really good book. We had to do a 500 word essay on the novel and that was a little tuff because we had to have quotes from the book and had to write the page numbers in with it. But other than that it was pretty awesome!
i think the great gatsby is a fantastic book, fantasically written. and daisy isnt as bad as everyone makes out.
I found the first part of the book to be quite boring. I also read this for my English class and I'm taking a test on it tomorrow. Once I got into the book, I noticed quite a few themes going round: Money is power, Power leads to being corrupt, Money buys freedom but not happyness, Nothing is a secret, outward appearances arn't always what they seem, how people want to go back into the past when things arn't working their way, and everyone is in search of the American Dream. Overall, I'd give the book a 6 out of 10. It didn't lack a punch that kept me focused on the book. I found myself "reading" but just going through the lines and not comprehending what was being said. Wish me luck on the test...<br>PB Sniper 247 <br><br>That is all...
I am watched the video and it is kindof good. It might be better than the book is 'cuse you see what is happining instead of reading it and having to picture it in your mind.
Did this book win any awards???<br>
Try people, just try. The book isn't nearly as hard as you say it is, I enjoyed the book completely. It is complicated on a miniscule level, the entire line of the story is smooth. True, there is a lot of confusing symbols but I understand most. How about yellow, if the other colors symbolize something what does yellow. I've heard it means materialism, flashiness, cowardess and about two dozen other things. If the book ended any other way though I would not have been satisfied
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.
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.
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.
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 ^^
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.
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>
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.
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