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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0-684-80152-3 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (768 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Jay Gatsby was a dreamer. He had dreams of regaining his old love that he had before he'd gone off to the war. His sole purpose in life was to get back the only woman that he had ever loved, Daisy. No matter the cost, no matter the obstacles, he would win her.
This is a brilliant piece of writing. _The Great Gatsby_ has been on so many "...all times" lists, that you would think it couldn't be that good, but it is. I can't believe that F. Scott Fitzgerald was able to pull this off in such a small book (it's only about 200 pages). The character development is prodigious. Likewise, Fitzgerald's prose is as good as any American author of any generation. I felt as much for Gatsby as I have for any other character. He had always had high aspirations, but his dreams were taken away from him by the fact the he had to fight a war, and he could never be the same.
Rating: 4
Summary: An amazing novel
Comment: This is the first novel I have read by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I really enjoyed it, although the story was sad. I liked how he wrote the story from the observations of a neighbor. I like the way he wrote the novel. I could picture some of the events and conversations taking place. This novel painted a picture that seemed more real to me than many other novels I have read. The plot was also good.
What happened? Nick Carraway was the neighbor to Jay Gatsby. Gatsby owns a large house and throws extravegant parties. His ambition is to have his former love, who is now married, attend one of his parties, and so renew their former relationship. The women Gatsby loved has an unfaithful husband and some of the novel deals with his mistress. There are also many twists in the novel, that kept me interested and allowed me to finish the book in one night. I encourage you to read this book. It is not long and is very well written.
Rating: 5
Summary: Heroes and Hopefuls
Comment: F. Scott Fitzgerald's later novels symbolize decadence, expatriate hedonism, and excess. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, tells a story (rather biographical) of a hopeful young man in college, on the verge of transcendence and moral epiphany. One might conclude that something happened along the way, that, how could an author, so interested in classical morality, come to end writing about rich drunks living in Europe.
The Great Gatsby fills in such disparity, as if Fitzgerald himself learned the lesson that all readers learn, in writing this gloriously sad and righteous book. Perhaps it was impossible to take any hero seriously, after creating Jay Gatsby.
Jay Gatsby loves without judgment, without conquest or need. The sad irony is that the object of such noble sentiment is a shallow yet benign Daisy, a lethargic, bored, and wealthy philistine. Gatsby is not a wise hero, otherwise this novel would be pedantic and obvious. Gatsby shares the shallowness of modern society, and its belief system of material possession. Gatsby is, simply put, 'unaffected', pure, a blind unabashed dreamer. Jay and his friends, all rather crass and shallow except for our narrator and moral moderator, Nick Calloway, go back and forth between cocktail parties, driving under T.J Eckleberg's Eyes, an abandoned billboard optometry advertisement. Themes of T.S. Eliot's hauntingly prophetic Wasteland are echoed. When a drunken night of obliviousness ends in the death of Tom Buchanan's (a fierce egoist and staunch 'realist') mistress, the moral fiber of all those involved break down, and finger's begin to twitch and point.
It is no surprise that Gatsby dies in this tragic yet hopeful novel. The arbitrariness of his death, the absurd lineage of events that precede the incident, seem obsolete and invariable in a way, almost as if his death was fitting, imminent, somehow purposeful. Readers remember the grotesquely graphic car accident, the symbolic green light across the bay, and the last scene in Gatsby's swimming pool, where ingrown waves beat 'ceaselessly against the past'. Let me assert another sublime moment: Jay stands, perched at the top of his marble staircase, wearing a colored suit. Nick notices a pink reflection below Jay, reflected off the immaculate surface Gatsby built, and now stands on. Perhaps the color leaking out of Gatsby was an arbitrary choice of wardrobe. Perhaps it was fate, that sooner or later, the color of blood, as if diluted in water, would surround and embrace our floating hero.
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Title: Catcher in the Rye Mass Market - Paperback by J.D. Salinger ISBN: 0316769487 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes, Kate Maurer ISBN: 0764586017 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481346 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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