The Great Gatsby Book Review
The Great Gatsby is a tragic story about life in the 1920's in New York's Long Island.. The main character, Nick moves to a new place and eventually meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. This book is filled with love affairs, death, and parties all at the same time. Once you get past the slow beginning, the book makes you want to turn the pages and find out what happens next in the attention grabbing book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The book opens on Nick, the narrator of the story. He is a quiet person and sees the world as it is. He does his own thing and doesn't like how Americas seems to be one big party all the time. He likes honesty and hard work, but enjoys the good things in life also. Like Gatsby, he also finds a love interest and as the story goes on it's interesting to see how their love grows and ends. When he meets Gatsby, his life is filled with more adventure and it makes the story interesting.
The entire book is Nick's memory of Gatsby and the troubles he went through.
Gatsby is the exciting character in the book. He has a taste for luxury and wealth. He gives parties that everyone comes to, even if they're not invited. He's popular but doesn't have any close friends. The only person Gatsby is close to is Nick. Nick once said to Gatsby, (talking about Daisy and Tom) “They're a rotten lot, you're better than all of them put together.” Even though Nick is close to Gatsby, he doesn't no everything about him. Gatsby has a mysterious past that no one seems to know about. One person says, “He killed a man,” another says, “He went to Oxford and he's respectable.” Either way you look at it, Gatsby has secrets that left me wondering what he was hiding.
Gatsby's love interest comes in the form of the wealthy and married Daisy Buchanan. Daisy had loved Gatsby before he went off to War World I many years ago. When Gatsby was accidentally sent somewhere else instead of returning home to Daisy, Daisy gave up after waiting for so long and married Tom. When Gatsby suddenly comes back in Daisy's life, she gets really confused about who she should love. His love for Daisy creates a dramatic tragedy that surprised me a lot. Daisy's conflict between choosing Gatsby or her husband who's cheating on her is very interesting to read about. However interesting she is, I don't like Daisy because in the end of the book she is really cruel and doesn't deserve to have someone love her.The writing style of this book is kind of hard to read and there's a lot of symbolism in it. The story line is very good and there's many twists and turns that surprised me. I would recommend reading it because of how much I enjoyed it. I would also suggest reading it slowly so that you can catch all the details and get the most from the book.
Overall I liked this book a lot. There was so many twists and would definitely recommend it if you like surprises and tragic endings. This book was one of my favorites out of the books I've read in literature circles at High Tech Middle. The Great Gatsby leaves you wanting more from Nick and Gatsby's world and wondering if your own life would ever be as interesting or sad as their lives are.
