Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Collins

120 reviews

magnolia_berry's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gun violence, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Death, Classism, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Racism, Murder, Sexism, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Violence, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

k_shimer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Classism, Car accident, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Misogyny, Sexism, Antisemitism, Grief, and Racial slurs

Minor: Confinement and War

cherryfreckle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol

jobaji's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Car accident, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Racism

Minor: War and Cursing

asienerbrown's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Classism, and Gaslighting

marthadude's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I mean it's Gatsby. Also Nick is gay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Violence

lizzield's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Car accident, and Death

caribbeangirlreading's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

2023:  Re-read this book for my Classics Book Club. As always, we had a spirited discussion as to the themes of the book. However, I still did not enjoy reading it and I still hate all the characters - Gatsby is a con-man. Daisy is NOT a victim. Tom is still a horrible human being. Gatsby and Daisy's relationship is toxic AF. Daisy and Tom deserve each other and all their unhappiness. And Nick . . . This time around I really noticed something that I had forgotten from my first read, that Nick is our narrator, and he's a very unreliable one. He "thinks" he's above the superficial and vapid lifestyle of the rich and famous of East/West Egg, but he's in fact just like them. He just doesn't have the money.

2013:  Intellectually, I can see why this book has remained a classic.  It is a scathing social commentary on life in the 1920s, and maybe even specifically of upper class society in the northeast US.  But emotionally, I despised Gatsby, and Tom, and Daisy, and Jordan and many of the other secondary characters so much that reading this book was more torture than pleasure.  I had to force myself to finish this book (over 2.5 weeks!) just so I could say I have read it.  And then F. Scott Fitzgerald's book will join the ranks of the classic American novels that I despise, i.e., every book ever written by his friend and contemporary, Ernest Hemingway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Gun violence and Racism

atlantisblauw's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Took until about page 140 for it to get interesting, but I did like the ending. Fitzgerald is a good writer, there are some beautiful sentences in there and he's good at writing flashbacks and other jumps through time. His characters are credible, but quite flat.

Ironically, Gatsby is presented as the mysterious one but you learn more about him than all other characters combined. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Antisemitism, Car accident, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse

faith99's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Classism, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Racism, Physical abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Grief and Alcohol

Minor: Murder and Gun violence