Great Gatsby Review

I totally agree with this statement

I disagree. Throughout the novel, Nick tries to prove his honesty to us. Why would someone need to verify himself like that? And at the end, in his last conversation with Jordan, Nick is accused of being a liar. What would Nick have to hide? How about his homosexuality? Then what can we really trust that he says, anyway? And on a side note, doesn't Nick seem to be a little bit too *taken* with Gatsby?<br><br>To deny Nick's *potential* homosexuality would be to needlessly miss out on a very interesting and potentially important detail of Nick's character.

well yah i agree with u gatsby did all of these things in order to win daisy who seems selfish and rediculios ,gatsby was thinking for the moments when can they be together ,to satisfy her although she doesnt deserve any thing from him in my point of view ,but i really wonder why she didnt remeber him when they tell her about his name and she said what gatsby....as if doent know him is this mean thet she doesnt care about him that she even forget his name or what

i believe gatsby's parties were thrown to show his riches to all tose around him and to prove to daisy that he was worthy of his love. if you read the book you'll notice evidence that all of his material possesions where obtained by him to impress daisy and all those but this tacky expression got him murdered.

Surely by replacing the woman's dress he was just being generous to amke up for his lack of social skills. The parties Gatsby throws are in a hope to see Daisy even though he doesn't realise that she is too high in society to attend.

I think that Gatsby's parties didn't have any connection to the corrupt business dealings..I think they were mainly used to lure Daisy.

the book actually gets much better sometime in the second chapter...don't worry. i once felt like you. i fell asleep a couples times getting through the first chapter. there should have been a warning sticker or something. make sure you don't watch the movie before you read the book, though. if you think the book is boring, wait until you see the movie, old sport. ;)

yes gatsby does all of these things in his party just to satisfy daisy <br>who seems selfish and careless and un devoted

Thanks for the extra help in your criticism review. I have to read and write a report on The Great Gatsby as well. It's due in three days and I really didn't understand most of the book.. but maybe thats becasue I really didn't try. Thankx to people like you , I can quote you in my Literary Criticism Paper due this thursday! Just wanted to say thankx, becasue I know you feel my pain.

Your very welcome Kelsey

I was suppose to read the book too. And I tried to read it but it just didnt interest me so instead of reading it i went and bought the cliffsnotes version of it and typed up a summary of the book from there and it was really helpful cliffnotes gets straight to the point and just tells you what happens

Admin Response Response: Victimless crime? Tell that to George or any other of the many good people who have lost loved ones to drinking and driving.

Dude those quotes really helped me out I was gonna use that one quote of the movie till I had to miss a day of school to finish my report! Its more people like you that we need in the world

I also hated this book. I never read it, but I read the fisrt 2 to 4 pages and dropped it. I hate it. It is boring and now I have to make a big project on it. I mean, I have to make a 5 page thesis report. I have to complete a 5 page rough draft in one afternoon. I don't think I can do that. I just got a topic and thesis statement. All of my other ones did not work. They where to obviuos. That is what I have 2 say on this book.

Maybe the reason both of you hated the book so much is because you lack the educational skills to fully understand it!? By the way, "becasue" is spelled "because", "Your very welcome Kelsey" should be "you're welcome ...", a comma goes before the word "too", you almost never begin a sentence with the word "and", and you lack so many necessary commas in your second sentence it's not even funny.

I highly agree that the beginning of the book is very boring. I'm not sure if anyone has ever gotten through the first chapter their first time picking it up. And yes, the book does get much better. Fitzgerald develops the characters in an interesting manner and makes them quite intriguing actually. I recommend that you try a little harder and read the novel, you might be surprised.

I too agree with what you are saying. Gatsby appears to be an honest man, fighting to reach his dream. That of being with the woman he loves. However, his methods of achieving the wealth she desires are far more immoral then expected from someone like him. With a theme like morality, Jay can be argued as a moral man corrupted by society

Chris, I highly disagree with you. I do feel that Gatsby is corrupt. He resorted to crime and illegal operations to get money to win someone over. She is married, why is he trying to break them apart? Whether she is unhappy or not, that is not his place. And the fact that he would have an affair with a married woman, how is that not indecent? I do feel that he is one of the less corrupt characters, but he is still corrupt!

i agree with you. gatsby was just in love, and can you really blame him for wanting to be back with his love Daisy? i understand why he felt the way that he did. overall, the book was very well written and in my opinion, very interesting!<br><br>steph<br>[email protected] om

I was compelled to reply to your comments concerning the above named book. Utter bilge, not really worth the read, hugely irrelevant in places, but fairly simple essay material.<br>I'm glad to see that I@m not the only one with this opinion!!

Got to disagree with you. You say most of it's not relevant, but that probably means you're not reading it well enough. Every paragraph has some subtle relevance that is easy to miss when reading it the first time. Once you have a good knowledge of the book reading it again is interesting to see all the bits you missed the first time and thought were irrelevant. Everything is there for a reason.<br><br>It's a shame you don't like the book cos it's one of the few I've studied in school that I've ever liked, so it must be quite good at least! It's short as well, which is a bonus.

Anonymous. I wrote the above comment because I was on hollidays and had nothing better to do at the time. I would like to point out that a typo does not suggest educational incompetance. Furthermore I sincerely regret my poor grammar, I hope you can forgive me. As I spent that whole minute on my comment, I definitely should have put more thought into my sentance structure. ~please note sarcasm~. <br><br>Different people have different, and often conflicting views of the world in which they live. Because of this, we all have our own ideas and feelings about different texts. I wrote my comment for anyone who disliked the plot, the context or the style of writing. If you were any kind of reasonably open-minded person you would accept other peoples feelings towards the book. Personally I tend to prefer fantasy novels and my favourite author is Anne McCaffery. But just because I prefer that style of writing doesn't mean I will attempt to degrade people who do not share my point of view. So put your head down and look straight at people, rather than sneering at them down your nose because they don't agree with you on a subject.<br><br>As for the other comments, thankyou for your feedback and I'm glad the quotes helped some of you. =)

very good:)

Ok, they're writing a response, who cares if they spelt a few words wrong! I read this book for English 12 and I actually enjoyed. Perhaps we are on different levels of thinking, or maybe I just put more effort into understanding the deeper meaning. If you actually took the time to read the book, you probably would have enjoyed it more too. I do agree that the first 2-4 pages were boring, but you can't base a whole novel on those pages, every novel gets better as you read it, that's why the climax is in the middle, not the beginning, but L, thank you for the quotes, because they did help my report.

I kept zoning out until I got to where Nick went to see Daisy and Tom for the first time. It was pretty good, and the BAM! Tom smacks Myrtle, and the next thing I knew I was done with the book! I've never read a book so fast. Maybe this one was just easy, but it was also a great story. If anybody didn't like it, they just didn't read far enough. That happens to me all the time.

Quite right! I don't see how you can make such extreme judgements about something you haven't even read. Have a bit of stamina, read the novel and then you might understand it's true charming beauty.

ok I don't know what people have been writing after the 19th of December because the messages arn't showing up. So I'm sorry to the...4 messages that I havn't replied to. If they ever show up for me I will reply.

ummm reading the book and seeing your quotes that you wrote two of them are wrong. i will not say which two because i feel the book is worth reading. it is carless people like you that make life boring and a waste of time. thanks, but no thanks

Thankyou for the quotes. I had intended to use that quote but thanks to you I didn't. I got 18/20 for the essay ( which was worth 15% of my HSC) so anyone who says you have to be stupid to dislike this book doesn't know what they're talking about

Brian, I'm not sure which book you read, but it sure wasn't The Great Gatsby. I read this book for English 12 and you seemed to write about information that didn't even show up in my edition. Jay didn't meet Daisy at war, he met her before hand, they didn't make love the night beofre she left and you certianly do not choose waht positon you want inthe war. If thatw ere the case, everyon woudl request to be an officer or even someone of higher ranking, and not a soldier. Dan Cody didn't want to be loved by everyone, because he already was, that had nothing to do with it. He came across money and lived his life, he did nothing special to embelish upon that.

I agree with L., but unfortunately, i dragged myself to read the book. There are some quotes which L mentioned that are in the book. So, beware of what you use and dont use.

Ha, ha! That's was a good one!

Also, his parents did not give Gatsby a set of rules, he made them up for himself. That is a key to understanding who Gatsby is and how the true American Dream lived in him. He had the ambition and motivation required to be more than he was. He really believed that he could have anything if he just tried hard enough. Unfortunalty, these ambitions took hold on an unworthy goal, Daisy. Gatsby instilled this kind of perfection in here that she didn't even possess. It was because of this blind misconception of Daisy and the foul means which he took to get her that caused Gatsby's downfall, and the downfall of his American Dream. Even more ironic is that his dream not only lead to his downfall, but his very death. If he could have let go of the dream of Daisy and realized he had lost her from the start, he could have left town after the accident and his life would have been spared. But, some say Gatsby was a dreamer, and a dreamer cannot live without his dream. Therefore, it was better for Gatsby to die than to go on livivng without his dream.

I partly agree with you Chris, and disagree with the other replies to this post. Gatsby did do some immoral things, but he didn't do them simply to win Daisy over (as a reply says). He worked to achieve his dream long before he even met Daisy. He is the one character in the book that did work hard to achieve the "American Dream." The people who took advantage of his hopitality without caring about him are the corrupt ones, i agree. And, as you said, Gatsby only had the best intentions. But remember, annoying platitude though it may be, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." <br>Of course Gatsby was involved in an extramarital affair, which is wrong, but Tom was involved long before that (with a very indifferent attitude). Gatsby loved only Daisy, and he did everything he could for her. Neither Daisy or Tom profess love for only one person, and show no guilt or remorse about playing with people's emotions. Daisy's reaction when she found out she killed Myrtle also shows what a shallow, uncaring person she reallly is.

I feel sorry for all of you who have to read TGG. I just got done reading it. I thought it was boring. But when you really get down into it the book really means some thing.

Gatsby is America - on a highly symbolic level. The readings shown here are very simplistic for such an intricate and deceptively accessible novel. Look at the symbolism and the literary allusions - it's so much more than a romantic story.

It's simple.<br><br>Gatsby is great because he lives in the moment, not thinking farther ahead in life other than his search for Daisy.<br><br>As well, if you read the beginning, Nick says that if personality was a series of unbroken gestures, Gatsby was it. Gatsby is the essence of the gesture, of not having the substance of life but having the cover, the surface. Of America, if you will.

Is it the "real world" or is everyone just living a dream they can't seem to wake from?

Typical responses from bored students help AP teachers like me create stronger lessons which require annotating pages, defending characters, analyzing strands, and producing creative products to prove mastery. Leaning on another source to think for you is like asking someone else to taste and digest your food...not the best idea in the world.

I hated the book and the movie.....at first. But you've got to give it a chance. Picking apart the book has become one of the most mind stimulating experiences I've ever had. I too was assigned it in an advanced english class and dreaded the thought of it, but I'm now researching my paper and I find it pretty challenging. Re read it and use an open mind, you might just be surprised.