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Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel about the impossibility of recapturing the past, was initially a failure. Today, the story of Gatsby’s doomed love for the unattainable Daisy is considered a defining novel of the 20th century. Explore a character analysis of Gatsby, plot Themes · Plot Analysis · The Great Gatsby Quotes · Jay Gatsby.
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The book may not be as Great as its reputation, but it is also, partly for that reason, better than you might expect. It is flawed and flimsy in some ways, but it still manages to be touching, surprising and, in its bittersweet fashion, a lot of fun. All of which is to say that whatever you think of Mr. But he has also felt free to make that material his own, bending it according to his artistic sensibility and what he takes to be the mood of the times. The result is less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence.
This is the first time Mr. Tom Buchanan Joel Edgerton is still a bully and a bigot, spouting the popular racist pseudoscience of his day. The gangster Meyer Wolfsheim Amitabh Bachchan is a bit less of a cringe-worthy anti-Semitic caricature than he was in But all of these people occupy a cartoon America that no living person has ever visited. We are in a world of artifice and illusion, confected from old-fashioned production-design virtuosity and newfangled digital hocus-pocus. Neither Fitzgerald nor Nick, his diffident mouthpiece, was immune to the seductions of hedonism and luxury, and the book does not entirely succeed as a critique of American materialism at what seemed to be its high-water mark.
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Luhrmann, for his part, does not resist at all. Jay Gatsby has got money. But unlike, say, Jay-Z an executive producer of the film , Jay Gatsby is a rich man whose modest background and criminal past are something to be hidden, sources of mystery, shame and potential ruin.
To those of us watching in our modest multiplex seats, he is a movie star. I do wish he would try a performance without one, though. More important, it is impossible to look away from him. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can think up in his ghostly heart. Not going to happen. Gatsby sucks. She is such a queen.
We know this. But guess who is not automatically responsible for his actions??? She totally roasts him up for his Rise of the Colored Empires pseudo-science racism. She simply does not treat people in the same way Tom does. Eight: Do we know that she knows that Gatsby died? Do we really, really, reallyyyyy know? Like, do we honestlyyyyyy think that the dude who picked up the phone is actually going to tell her he called? He manipulated her, lied to her, treated her like an object and nearly ruined her life.
Whatever, man. Nine: The car thing She was traumatized. Gatsby orchestrated the whole cover-up.
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He took the wheel, he drove away, he hid the car. She had no clue the whole thing would go horribly wrong. God this was so long. And apologetic. Toward you, for having read a very long thing that I wrote, and toward myself, because I had to write it. This should certainly be enough to prove that Daisy Buchanan is a victim to her circumstances and otherwise noble and great and trying her goddamn best in a world in which everyone treats her like the beautiful fool she is totally not.
Plus her voice is full of money. Now go off in your new happy life of being utterly enamored with Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, you poor doomed bastard.
You were ahead of your time. If you would have pulled your scam after the invention of reality TV, you would have been a huge star on a show like The Bachelor and a dozen shameless Daisy-types would have thrown themselves at you. Your knack for self-promotion and over the top displays of wealth to try and buy respectability would have fit right in these days. I can just about see you on a red carpet with Paris Hilton.
And the ending would have been different. No aftermath for rich folks these days. Lawyers and pay-off money would have quietly settled the matter. No harm, no foul. So maybe it is better that your story happened in the Jazz Age where you could keep your illusions intact to the bitter end. The greatest American novel?
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But I think you'd have to include this one in the conversation. Jul 31, svnh rated it did not like it Shelves: one-more-time.
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After six years of these heated and polarized debates, I'm deleting the reviews that sparked them. Thanks for sharing your frustrations, joys, and insights with me, goodreaders. Happy reading! In love and good faith, always, Savannah. Oct 23, Gina rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction. Daisy Buchanan seemed like a twit of a woman, and I found Jay Gatsby to be pathetically clawing in his attempt to attain her. Fitzgerald has a discerning ability for sharp critiques of the economically privileged and, like Jane Austin, has an ear for realistic, bantering dialogue.
And like many Americans in the throes of Capitalism, Gatsby believes that money can buy beauty as well as love. One critique of The Great Gatsby , which could also be argued as a positive, is the limited scope of action and themes Fitzgerald chooses to encapsulate. We only see the wealthy elite or people wanting to be the wealthy elite , and only Nick really has any depth of characterization. Unlike a tome, such as War and Peace , Gatsby fails to have numerous interwoven plotlines within a grand historical context. Gatsby is short and easily accessible, and I have no doubt these aspects of the novel do lend to its everlasting popularity.
At the same time, it should never diminish its truly admirable ability to tease apart some of the most confounding qualities American culture values: money, beauty, youth, hard work, and the ever effusive, love. View all 26 comments. This is a good book, though it is so ridiculously overrated. There are so many great books out there that will never get the attention they deserve. They will be forgotten and their wisdom heard by only a select few who are willing to go looking for it.
So it annoys me when books like this are acclaimed by critics and readers alike as the best pieces of fiction in existence when they are not. Anyway, rant over.
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The thing I like most about The Great Gatsby is the This is a good book, though it is so ridiculously overrated. As such this is a book that can easily be skimmed over. The plot is basic and relatively unengaging and consequently I think an inattentive reader has a lot to miss here. The way people perceive us is not how we truly are and sometimes individuals actively work towards creating a desired appearance for the outside world. What Gatsby creates for the outside is a dream, an ideal life that looks perfect.
However, scratch the surface and it is so very, very, clear that not everything is perfect. It is fickle, egotistical and driven by status and all the silly little symbols that go with it. His success is what society demands success to be; thus, he positions himself into a place where he can chase his true dream. In doing so Gatsby shows us that not everything is as simple as it appears, and that society driven by such monetary values is a dangerous thing because everybody is so detached from what really matters in life.
The object of his affections, for example. I enjoyed The Great Gatsby though I certainly did not love it. Its popularity baffles me to a degree, I can think of books from the same era that deserve far more attention. View all 27 comments. May 02, Stephen rated it it was amazing Shelves: love-those-words , audiobook , , literature , classics-americas , easton-press. Casual, self-absorbed decadence, the evaporation of social grace, money calling all the shots and memories of the past holding people hostage from the future that lies before them.
Yes, Mr. Fitzgerald has nailed it and written one of THE great American novels.