The Great Gatsby
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This volume is part of the “Cambridge Literature” series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-language classrooms. The series should provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.Amazon.com Review
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his choice to write “something new–something extraordinary and gorgeous and simple + intricately patterned.” That extraordinary, gorgeous, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Fantastic Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald’s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the leader’s generation and earned itself a stable place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald’s–and his country’s–most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run quicker, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning–” Gatsby’s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It’s also a like tale, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel starts, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an on the breadline officer. They fall in like, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means–and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. “Her voice is full of money,” Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel’s more legendary descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy’s patrician East Egg take up, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical national Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Fantastic Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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Tom Buchanan is the super-rich, unforgivingly prejudiced symbol of white manly might and perfection. He can’t stand the thought of mixed relationships, “next thing they’ll have intermarriage between blacks and whites” (p.137). Oddly enough Fitzgerald gives Tom that line to clarify the significance of the suspected extra marital affair between his wife Daisy and Gatsby. Was he inferring that becuz Gatsby was not a European white (Tom refers to himself and his crowd as Nordics) he was doomed to fall?
Tom’s a avid reader of white power literature alluding to the authors as “scientists”. He warns everyone that ‘coloured’ races will take over if left unchecked. Airheaded Daisy (the rich and of course white object of Gatsby’s affection) agrees, remarking admiringly, “Tom’s..very profound”.
Tom also chooses the underdog to conduct an illicit affair–his mechanic’s wife, Myrtle. Of course Tom goes unpunished for his adulterous behaviour while Myrtle is killed in a hit and run, courtesy of Daisy, who also gets off unscathed. Gatsby takes the fall for her.
James Gatz is of course a Jewish name, which Gatsby changed in his late teens showing his own bring shame on for his ethnicity. Of course the shifty Jewish criminal, Mr. Wolfsheim has a poor mandate of the English language. Nick, the narrator mocks his versions of “Oggsford” for Oxford and “goneggtion” for tie.
At the end the poorest people are wiped out, the mechanic and his cheating wife (for whom Tom sheds a hypocritical crocodile tear). Narrator Nick refers to the mechanic’s death as “the holocaust”.
Can’t say I loved this novel, Gatsby fell in foolish like with a high-maintenance, forbidden woman because she was white, full of money and the fineries that went with it. It wasn’t a pure like tale. In the end Gatsby paid with his life while Tom and Daisy (who I’ll call a spineless murderess for not admitting to anyone her responsibility in the manslaughter of Myrtle) continue their high lifestyle scot-free.
Was Fitzgerald trying to say the underclass doesn’t have or deserve a chance in hell?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
it has no purpose…..its a hard to read
dull book!?!?!? i dont find it that appealing…
but i have to read it for school so what can you do?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
when i looked at reviews for this many people said this was a classic and a must read. please! this book was one of the worst things i have ever read. i personally had no desire to read about spoiled rich people who had problems. omg i really had no sympathy for any of the characters, especially Gatsby. honestly, he had it coming. i’m sure a lot of older people will delight in this book but if your under 21 i’d stay far far away
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Hey everyone! Lookit me! I’m a rich small snot and I can throw a huge party in my mansion! What’s “fantastic” about this Gabsty fellow exactly? Write something about people who work for a living, not this junk.
I didn’t like this one small bit, sorry. Try again. Only one star for your book, sir!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5