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Summary: I was expecting more
Review: I began The Great Gatsby with extremely high hopes of the great American novel. In truth, while well done, Gatsby is not as exceptional as many would have you believe. I think perhaps people have gotten to the point of lauding this book simply because it is the popular thing to do. I found it rather disjointed and mildly slow but the quote of the "orgastic future" and the "mouth full of money" are unforgettable and might be worth reading the book by themselves.
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Summary: Gatsy takes alot of time
Review: The Book is filled with tons of symbolism but you may have to read it more than once to get it. You must take your time to really figure out the characters and their intentions.
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Summary: color symbolism is great
Review: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/2056/ This is a great page for the Color Symbolism in the novel The Great Gatsby.Color Symbolism page!!
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Summary: America: the home of Mammon
Review: The story was beautifully written but yet is so terribly tragic. Gatsby's desperate attempt to win Daisy's heart is so terribly vapid. Gatsby is a man with so little content, but yet so many complexities. Fitzgerald's writing style is so brilliant with the description of life on New York's Long Island. The shallowness and pure moral emptiness of the characters resonates throughout the novel. Gatsby dies for his own criminal sins, but also for the sins of the party goers. Fitzgerald voyeuristically brings the reader along on a joyride with Gatsby as his life spirals out of control. His murder stops the joyride not only for the party goers but for the readers as well. The lack of attendance at his funeral shows that he had no true friends, but that everybody, excluding the narrator, used Gatsby only for his money. The people of Long Island, including Daisy, are slaves to Mammon and this sickens Fitzgerald to the core. Fitzgerald through Gatsby questions American values, but American society in general. God in Long Island is replaced by advertising bill boards for eye doctors. The writing style is splendid and the story is captivating yet saddening. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the greatest novel of the 1920's, and top five all-time in American literature.
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Summary: I *wanted* to like it...
Review: The Great Gatsby, frankly, was not that great. Maybe I'm not ready for it yet, I don't know (I had to read it for English class). Fitzgerald's writing was very vague. At times, a novel calls for vague writing, and it works. In this case, it did not. He just skimmed over the important parts and honed in on pointless details. The entire book had a very ghostly quality; I always felt like something was there, but it was mostly undetectable. Still, it has its good points - I liked the way Fitzgerald protrayed Gatsby's fair-weather friends, and the tragic ending that could be compared to a Shakespearean tragedy, when no one is left but the narrator :). I'm not entirely sure what to make of this book, I think I'll read it again in a few years. Until then, I shall be mystified by those who gave this book 5 stars, and rename the book "The Okay Gatsby".
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Summary: Perhaps the greatest work of fiction ever!
Review: This book is pure poetry in prose. The writing is is at times overwhelmingly beautiful. Along with Plato's Republic, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Orwell's 1984, this book is in the first rank of books.
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Summary: All those that rated book less than 4 stars...
Review: Can't identify good literature when they see it. Fitzgerald masterfully pulls off second-person narration. He crafted each sentence to create one legendary masterpiece. It's a complete story with each scene dependant on the next and written at a steady pace. Meaning, it contains three distinct parts, a beginning,middle and end, lacking tongue and cheek wordiness.
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Summary: Interesting plot, good charecters, overall good book.
Review: The Great Gatsby is a book of interesting tales, fun charecters and great moral outcome. To find out what really happened to Gatsby you have to read it.
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Summary: Essentially hollow and I'm not referring to the characters.
Review: Don't get me wrong I have a tender spot in my heart for Gatsby, but I try not to kid myself that it is one of the greatest American novels of all time. No what it is is one of the most accessible serious American novels of this century. This said it must be acknowledged that serious flaws exist in this novel. The style and structure are self deluding in that they hark to established reader responses. Nick is a crutch for Fitzgerald in that he needed this neighbour character to make the distant yet close tone of the novel easy to write...this character device is old hat, check out any of the more noirish so called pulp novels of contemporaneous times. Indeed the whole cast are just finely worked cliches (and it is not just that they have become so due to TGG's popularity) and an excuse for Fitzgerald to address what he is really after the American dream. Oh well it is just this atmosphere that we're after as readers, we love it and can't get enough of it. The problem is that we then pat ourselves on the back and say we're reading a masterpiece. No a masterpiece causes us to question deeply our own held beliefs and offers insight, not as the GG does which is serve up ideas which are just ever so slightly below the surface in everyone...No it is just too easy, the ideas are never really represented on several intellectual fronts so that when we finish the gg we cannot help but have on some level an empty feeling. Maybe as a cynical/demanding reader I'm the outsider, but this book always leaves we looking for more. More than the trite Nick can hand me anyway.
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Summary: INCREDIBLE!
Review: The Great Gatsby was by far one of the best books I have ever read. I recomend this book to people of all ages. The book itself is easy to understand and has great character analysis.
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