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“The Great Gatsby” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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 denyed 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 misterious neighbour Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, renowned for his parties where the whole upperclass enjoys themselves, is, if anything, a mistey. It is rumoured 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 shere 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 accidentaly runs over, what (ironically) turns out to be, her husbands affaire. 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 mistery that is Gatsby. It also shows the ungratefulness and falsehood of the people that enjoy Gatsbys hospitality.

5/5