Novel: Great Gatsby..

[petit]

How is the personlity of Character??
Tom?? Nick?? Daisy?? Jordan??
any relationship between them??
thx thx~~~

[crazycaleb]

Hm.. my memory's a bit rusty on this novel for some reason..

Tom and Daisy were a superficial married couple, if I remember right. Tom seemed to often try to talk about philosophical/scientific matters (how the white race was being threatened by minorities, for example) that he really didn't know much about. He was carrying on an affair with the wife of a mechanic, and kind of had a whole other life (a separate apartment that he took the lady to, separate friends, etc). Daisy was the cousin of Nick, and was also quite superficial. She ended up meeting Gatsby, a person who she had a brief romance with years ago, and sort of led him on for a bit. I hated Tom and Daisy :D

Nick, as I said, was related to the others through his kinship with Daisy really, and through the fact that he lived next to Gatsby. Jordan was daisy's friend, and sort of hooked up with Nick for a bit. He had a woman waiting for him back in the midwest though, and decided that he would rather stay with her.

Eh.. that's the basics of what I remember, I don't think I'm off on any of that. That's very basic info though, just explaining the basic relations between them. You really should read the book :P not that long.

[icenspize]

Somebody please tell me what's so great about this piece of writing.
I found the book insufferably boring, much to the dismay of the people who recommended it to me.

[Admin]

I really like it.

I think that it is a great portrayal of human nature at it's best and worse. It is a character's novel.

[Zooey]

Fitzgerald is a literary god, and I adore this book.

[Vronaqueen]

nobody says you have to like. i for one love the book but if i read too much of him i get sick to my stomach and bored out of my mind. i've talked to friends who hated it and with the majority of them, it was for the same reason. they found the characters rich and snobbish so they felt no connection for them

[Zeno]

Here is a funny fact for you fans of the novel its original title was "Golden Hatted Gatsby" :) Did you guys read the last tycoon i think parts of it are Fitzgeralds best writing.

I also recomend the letters of F scott Fitzgerald giving insight into his life and work.

[Zooey]

Did you guys read the last tycoon i think parts of it are Fitzgeralds best writing. No, I haven't, though it's been on my "must-read" list for a while now. His best, you say? How so?

[Zeno]

well I said parts of it are his best. I think the novel as a whole was sort of incomplete. His last work before he died maybe im not sure? anyway i think the charecter of the Stuudio Executive was really well realized. Fitzgerald in his letters used to talk about haveing a real image of his charecters in his mind and being able to show us that and i think he was really doing some of his best work. i wonder if others will agree after reading it.

[Robert E Lee]

The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary book. The beautiful prose, the hilarious dialogue that mocks New York gentility, Fitzgerald's ability to tell a great story in less than 200 pages make this one of my five favorite novels ever.

I actually prefer Tender is the Night, however; because I felt the characters were more complete, the writing more fluid, and the overall impact stronger.

[orangecafe2046]

I'm interested in Fitzgerald's books after read ur discussion... :D