“The Great Gatsby” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 25/12/2008
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a man who accumulates all the wealth and possessions he could hope for but is still denied the one thing he so desperately seeks.
Nick Carraway a bond salesman from New York moves to West Egg (on Long Island South) where he meets his wealthy and mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, renowned for his parties where the whole upper-class enjoys themselves, is, if anything, a mystery. It is rumored that he has killed a man, has studied in Oxford and served in World War I, all of which turn out to be somewhat true or at least likely. Nick also meets Daisy, his second cousin again, who is, not so happily anymore, married to Tom, a successful football player from Yale. After being invited by Gatsby to one of his parties he attends a few of them and realizes that no one seems to really know anything about Gatsby. More and more it becomes clear to Nick, that Gatsbys only goal is to become worthy of Daisy, whom he fell in love with before the War, and finally marry her. In his sheer shyness he uses Nick to facilitate a reunion and Daisy seems to care for Gatsby, too. But things go sideways, Daisy, driving in Gatsbys fancy sport car accidentally runs over, what (ironically) turns out to be, her husbands affair. Wanting to protect her at any cost, Gatsby turns it into a hit and run, advising Daisy against admitting the accident and is later found out by the victims husband and shot. His funeral is attended only by Nick and some old man whom Nick once met wandering in Gatsbys library, none of his business partners, so called friends or benefactors of his parties come, not even Daisy.
Fascinating about this book is mostly the narrative, which only shows us Nicks personal, imperfect, often incomplete and biased view of he things and more precisely of the mystery that is Gatsby. It also shows the ungratefulness and falsehood of the people that enjoy Gatsbys hospitality.
5/5
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Hey, sorry for jumping into your comments, but I didn’t see your email address anywhere. You’re right about Gatsby: he’s got everything in the world but what he wants: love. There’s so much more in the story, too. It’s just amazing.
There’s some pretty cool stuff in the book, and the people over at http://www.shmoop.com have made Gatsby tons of fun to dive into. I think you might find them interesting.
You’re right, my email address really is nowhere to be found, my mistake. ;) Well it is now under [url=http://blog.mozork.de/about/]about[/url].
Thanks for the link, I think this hast just become my base for getting a little background on the novels I read. :D