The Great Gatsby

by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby was one of our required books to read for our English class.

Here's my random thoughts about it...

The Great Gatsby is set in the "Roaring Twenties." I loved the way the setting of this book, helped to further the plot and idea of it. West Egg, East Egg and The Valley of Ashes all had a part to play in showing the social behavior of different types of people during that era. In History, we were learning about America during the 1920's. I felt as though this deepened my love for the book as a whole. This book also takes an amazingly critical look at what the concept of the American Dream is all about.

Each character in this novel has a role to play. Nick is our unbiased, third wheeling narrator. Tom and Daisy Buchanan along with Jordan Baker are the careless products of wealth. Jay Gatsby, the person who this book is named after and the main character of this novel, is full of hope and ambition in his quest for the American Dream and his undying love.

Every thing in this book is so profound. Every item symbolizes something, every colour means something and every word hides something deeper under its surface.

I honestly feel that this book would not have been given a four star rating if it wasn't for my amazing English teacher. She analysed every chapter in this story and made it so simple to understand.

Fitzgerald certainly created an amazing story, one which shows the moral decay that is buried under an illusion of wealth and class, the lengths a man will go to achieve his dream and the fact that the past cannot be changed.

The Great Gatsby is certainly a timeless piece of literature.