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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s difficult to give an accurate rating of this novel. I find it a very troubling story signifying the disaster of living a life of pleasure and selfishness. It is incredibly detailed and written with vivid insight into the Jazz Age. However, I don’t know if I have the capability to read it again. By the end the characters are fundamentally destroyed (as they deserved) or turned into hypocrites. In all, it serves as an incredible commentary of Capitalism and of the leisure class, aiding in the need for one to create meaning in one’s life. It is a wonderful book for those that read for pain, not pleasure.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I mean, it wasn't bad. There was a bit of antisemitism and other non-modern thought, but then again it's not a modern book. The symbiotic ineffectiveness and insecurity was real enough.
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness. Indeed, I accomplished the not unusual feat of solving each question in my mind long before it presented itself to me in life—and of being beaten and bewildered just the same. "But after a few tastes of this latter dish I had had enough. Here! I said, Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against. So I wrapped myself in what I thought was my invulnerable scepticism and decided that my education was complete. But it was too late. Protect myself as I might by making no new ties with tragic and predestined humanity, I was lost with the rest. I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
fitzgerald's idealistic rash emotional passionately misguided stupid aesthetes... yes <3
anthony's ramblings & maury's sharp wit!!
the "Your remarks grow rambling and inconclusive," said Anthony sleepily. "You expected one of those miracles of illumination by which you say your most brilliant and pregnant things in exactly the setting that should provoke the ideal symposium." of it all?absolutely. table for one. thanks. expect a tip.
4.25
fitzgerald's idealistic rash emotional passionately misguided stupid aesthetes... yes <3
anthony's ramblings & maury's sharp wit!!
the "Your remarks grow rambling and inconclusive," said Anthony sleepily. "You expected one of those miracles of illumination by which you say your most brilliant and pregnant things in exactly the setting that should provoke the ideal symposium." of it all?absolutely. table for one. thanks. expect a tip.
4.25
I had high expectations for this novel, probably because I loved Gatsby so much and...it didn't really deliver for me. I know it's supposed to be satirical, but it mostly just made me mad and depressed. I think I might actually need an English teacher to help me through it, and then I might like it more.
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is exactly what it sounds like--about beautiful people who pretty much do nothing and as a result, to use a crude term, screw themselves. While I love novels in this time period, Fitzgerald weaves a picture so pathetic of the once rich and lazy couple that by the end of it, I just wanted them, to put it lightly, perish. Maybe that was the point. If so, well done, F.