I don’t get it
Man dedicates his entire existence to recreating past love with an idealized ho and it turns out poorly
>>25240727Oh, ok now I get this same thing happened to me actually and almost ruined my life, good stuff f Scott Fitzgerald
>>25240706I still haven’t read this thing. Is it worth it? I just read Moby Dick again so will it maintain the quality I’ve come to expect from such a lauded book or not?
>>25240737As long as you're not so full of yourself that you have to feel a book is patting you on the back for being smart and knowing big words to count it as a good book -- yeah, it's good and worth it.
>>25240737it’s less than 50k words and free to download, so sure, yeah, especially since any lit circle to encounter will reference this book fairly frequentlyhttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby
>>25240737I somehow missed it in school, so I read it recently and enjoyed it. Very short and beautifully written. If you're a "prose" guy you'll probably like it
>>25240750Nah I’m not so pompous as that… these days.>>25240755>>25240753Thanks a lot lads, I’ll be sure to check it out, I do lament not being assigned this in school myself (we got Steinbeck instead who I’m sorry to say, I wasn’t really a fan of)
the american dream can only be good when not rooted in nostalgia
the light is green bcuz uhhh greed or sumn
>>25240706what do you mean. it's a story, there's nothing to get, your job is to absorb the characters and events and emotions. there are lots of interpretations and connections you could make, but there's no hidden answer or secret meaning that fitzgerald cunningly placed clues to.
>>25240706The theme is explained in like the last page of the book.
>>25241037could be read as part of nick's conceit however
>>25240737Not really, it’s pretty meh and has way too many characters despite their only being like 8
>>25241037I skimmed through that maybe I should read again
>>25240959Damn "bro" you should definitely kill yourself
>>25241656nta but you sound angry at yourself.
>>25240706GG has obscure literary reference (OLR) to lothrop stoddards classic
>>25240737> I just read Moby Dick again so will it maintain the quality I’ve come to expect from such a lauded book or not?Comparing Moby-Dick to this is like comparing a Michelin star restaurant to indian street food.
>>25241616Consider you might be too dumb for literature.
>>25242232The fact that it’s sometimes more revered in the normiesphere too (or placed as equals with MD) is a joke. Probably to do with the fact it’s assigned in high schools in the US. It’s a fine book but not on that level
>>25240706Nobody ever brings up the fact that this book, written prior to WW2, features a greasy jew whose office is under the name of the Swastika Holding Company
>>25240959i thought the light across the bay was as an allusion to hero and leander. haven't seen anyone make that connection surprisingly.
>>25240706It's a tale of cucking and murder. Cornerstones of American culture.
>>25240737It's a pretty good book, and it has good prose. Anyone that shits on this book doesn't experience emotions like a regular human does.
>>25240706It's impossible to discuss this book because the prose is much more accessible than other great works, so every American has been exposed to it and a ton of damp, neanderthal breath wasted criticizing it. But there is a reason it went from unloved to the great American novel. It is a masterclass of love, longing, regret. and shame that perfectly maps onto the experience of American history. The sweetness of the past, simultaneously real and imagined, will never not tempt good men. The rich and reckless, meanwhile, exist in their own purgatory, destroying everyone else's lives while ignoring the gilded disasters of their own. Gatsby is the contradictory American archetype, a self-made man who is honest and sincere yet the result of lies, fraud and self-denial. >He [Gatsby] knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.This is one of the greatest kisses in literature, so achingly beautiful, saccharine in a way. And that simple beauty is exactly what haunts and destroys our protagonist; Gatsby's witnessing the pinnacle of his life means everything that follows is downhill.
>that first jewish guy you meet in the novel>Scotty adresses his nose immediatly>Jews first sentence is him ranting about moneywhat did Scott mean by this ?
>>25240750This. It's overrated but still excellent.
>>25240737You should have read it in high school. But yeah, you can't consider yourself literate if you haven't read it
>>25240766>we got Steinbeck instead who I’m sorry to say, I wasn’t really a fan of)Only ones I had to read (and have a class discussion on) wereThe Pearl by SteinbeckOf Mice & Men by SteinbeckPearl is A tier for best book experiences of my lifeOf Mice and Men was a slog I didn't enjoy but I'm still glad we did it because there's still important themes and characters there that if you don't know you're a plebeUnfortunately we didn't readGrapes of WrathEast of EdenTravels with Charley: In Search of AmericaThose last two are on the top of my list to read as they both sound great and East of Eden is the one he considered his best work
>>25240730The "green light" represents the unachievable future that keeps receding, suggesting the emptiness behind the glamour of the Jazz Age.
>>25240706It's about cuckoldry. Prove me wrong (you can't). Daisy was a horny slut.
