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Summary: A must read!!
Review: What I love most about the Great Gatsby is how it depicts what the 1920's were like. It gives you a taste of what it would be like to live back then and how society functioned. It brought together the 2 worlds of Gatsby and Daisy and George and Myrtle and showed how much they contrasted. Fitzgerald really does a great job of installing images into your head of what different scenes looked like-especially the huge parties Gatsby would have at his house. I really liked the story itself although it could be seen as depressing. Oh well, I guess all stories can't always have a happy ending!!
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Summary: He captures everything
Review: All I can say is, WOW. I was simply amazed by the way he described even the rain coming down in sheets. He captured a generation, a feeling, a need, a way of life- he captured America, he captured Americana. All this, in how many pages? Again- WOW.
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Summary: Gasby is the best summary of the Roaring 20s around today.
Review: I am a senior in high school and was assigned The Great Gatsy to read for english class. There was nothing quite like sitting down and thinking about what the true meanings in this book really are. There are stories of triumph, sacrifice; love and hate; rich and poor, and many others. Each character has their own story, and each intertwines with another. The Great Gatsby is an amazing work of art with incredible stories clashing different types of people to give the essence of a great era in our history. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: My favorite book written!
Review: This book is great! I couldn't keep it down! It is romantic, suspenseful, and mysterious. I definately give it a perfect 10!
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Summary: A wholistic sleigh ride through the banal roaring 20's.
Review: Much like Demian, by Herman Hesse, the Great Gatsby offers a very human story about a Man torn between the various pressures of life: conformity and individualism, facade and substance. Nick is a silent narrator, he watches, but he's not completely quiet. This novel may appear convoluted and confusing, but it is truly pure and honest. It makes no judgement of morality, grace and sin, nor does it favor idealism or cynicism. The main character wades through an insane and typical world, and outsider and a member. A paradoxical romp, The Great Gatsby explodes a realm of utter humanity, a thing few novels accomplish, although many try.
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Summary: on my list of favorites
Review: This is one of my favorite books, and I have read it over and over. It's sad how Gatsby appeared to have everything he wanted, but in reality, the one thing he wanted (Daisy) was just out of his reach. To me, Gatsby was an intensly lonely man who spent his whole life trying to fill his life. It really makes you think. END
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book agrandized our lives after completing this masterpiece. At first, the book was slow, but after it picked up momentum, it never slowed. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most coveted authors in all american literature. He is a mastermind in all of art's history. He uses ordinary situations and makes them come to life.
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Summary: haven't we seen this before?
Review: We read this book in hope of enjoying, it but what is there to like when you have read it before. It starts out interesting but the characters are boring and don't seem real. The ending is just plain bad.
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Summary: the greatest of the American novels
Review: During my college years, I was forced to read The Great Gatsby, and I must say that I'm glad my professor chose to force this masterpiece on me. It is my all time favorite book. Fitzgerald's last three final paragraphs could stand alone by themselves and they would still be considered a masterpiece.
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Summary: Gatsby captures the emptiness of the American Dream.
Review: I am now reading F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for the fifth time. Each time that I read the work, it yields more gold. In many ways this novel is a metaphor for a failed American Dream; however, it is only one possible dream. I am not so cynical(yet) to believe that there is only one dream. Martin Luther King's dream of service to humanity is certainly a viable one that remains. Gatsby's only flaw was that he loved his mental projection of Daisy--his ideal woman. But the Daisy he loved and the real life Daisy were as different as night and day. The real Daisy was shallow,self-centered, and materialistic. Daisy could not love because Daisy was not really a person. Instead, she was a one-dimensional imitiation of a human being; her husband Tom is her male counter-part; neither one is a whole person. Yet, as Nick tells us "They could always retreat into their money." In many ways, Gatsby has as much relevance today as it did for the twenties. In our super-materialistic, name brand society peolpe are brain-washed into pursuing Daisy-dreams of designer clothes, prestige cars and bigger, better houses. Maybe, Gatsby even has moral and ethical implications: To pursue the empty god of materialism(Daisy) is to choose death. "Gatsby turned out alright in the end." At least, he found a reason to live and a reason to die(even if it was misguided).The Great Gatsby captures the emptiness of an American Dream.
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