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Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom, F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0-87754-901-X Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: October, 1987 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (791 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Looking at The Great Gatsby
Comment: Gosh, what can I say about The Great Gatsby. This classic book, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a required novel that I had to read for my Introduction to the Novel class. It is a story about a man that discovers that he wants so much more in life than most people had. He wanted success, wealth, and a trophy wife. Put in the lovely Daisy Buchanan, the woman in which Jay Gatsby found his love of wealth and his love for her. However, to thicken the plot, Daisy is already married to the cold, hard Tom Buchanan. When Tom finds out about the affair between Daisy and Jay, he throughs a fit in a deluxe suite at the Plaza Hotel. But what does Tom have to complain about, he is also engaged in an affair with his mistress, Myrtle. It is through Myrtle's early death that Jay Gatsby's life also ends in sorrow. One pitiful scene occurs before Gatsby's death, he is waiting outside Daisy and Tom's bayside home, dressed in a pink suit, hiding in the shadows in case some emotional fireworks go off. The Great Gatsby is a fine classic, and it is quite thought provoking about life in the 1920's and today. No small wonder that my English professor wanted the class to read this novel. Even though we are a small class of six people, we certainly had about to say about The Great Gatsby.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and Entertaining!
Comment: I must admit I was quite intimidated by this novel. I had a number of preconceptions that made me shun away from reading it. I always heard it was about a rich guy trying to win over a girl... From this I imagined a snobby Victorian English guy playing polo saying "Marry me my dear?" and the girl says, "Oh no I can't!" Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. End of novel. In short, I imagined it was a story with thick characters with which I couldn't identify.
Well, fortunately I did get a chance to read it. And I was capitvated, (not to mention on a very long car trip) that I devoured it it one sitting. The Great Gatsby broke down everyone of my preconceptions and now has become one of my favorite novels.
The intense drama that unfolds between these very different and very inter-connected characters will cause the book to shake in your hands. I loved every minute of it. Especially how Gatsby's character is slowly reveiled, lie by lie, truth by truth, until the large tragic picture comes into focus. This is the American tragic love story.
Don't waste anymore time. Don't be intimidated. Read it, you'll be glad you did.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece Only Fitzgerald Could Write
Comment: What more can be said about this extraordinary work? It truly has everything--the universal American themes of success and money, finely drawn characters, perhaps the most doomed love story ever written, and finally, a bitterly tragic ending.
I first read this book over 30 years ago at a time when I was first discovering Fitzgerald's genius. However, I have since found myself coming back to it again and again. The mood Fitzgerald's words generate is like nothing else I've ever experienced in literature, with the possible exception of the writings of Isak Dinesen.
In "Gatsby", a sense of impending doom seems to loom over the entire story. Here you have a hero whose only goal in life is winning the love of a boundlessly shallow and self-centered woman who can never be worthy of his affections. Daisy's persona, combined with the world of money and carelessness that has produced her and her kind, can only lead to tragedy for Gatsby.
A masterpiece ...
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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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