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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
This quote, told by Nick Carraway’s father, had stuck with me from the beginning and until the end of the story. I just felt that somewhere in the novel, I would know how this saying will affect the characters, and me as well as a reader.
The Great Gatsby started simple, with Nick Carraway as the narrator, telling the story of his encounter with a man named Jay Gatsby. I could say that the whole novel hit me hard as well as the famous saying “Money can’t buy happiness” after reading it. It was beautifully written, focusing on the nature of people. It showed how people can be deceiving, how they can be a ‘leech’ as long as they have someone, in the form of a rich Gatsby, to use for their satisfaction. It also showed how money and richness can be useless in some point of life.
I admire the character of Gatsby. His love for Daisy Buchanan, the woman he loved years ago but now a married woman, is amazing although he was kind of blinded by that love. He was a poor man when he met and when he fell in love with Daisy and when he went to war, Daisy decided to marry another man named Tom Buchanan. Years later, an improved, rich Gatsby tried wooing her back by buying a mansion and throwing lavish parties in hopes that she would attend someday.
She did attend and they were able to talk once again, and driven by the strong emotions of the past, Daisy became attached to Gatsby again. In the end, I come to realize that Daisy just led him on and dropped him like a hot potato once she was confronted by things she would rather keep as a secret and when she accidentally killed Myrtle Wilson, her husband’s mistress by hitting her with the car she’s driving that belongs to Gatsby. Of course Gatsby took the blame for her.
I was really sad when Gatsby was killed. Tom Buchanan told Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, that it was Gatsby who killed his wife. It was not stated if he knew that it was really daisy who killed Myrtle. In the end, the two of them cut their connections with Gatsby. So George shot Gatsby with his gun then killed himself afterwards but the most heartbreaking scene for me was when no one of those people whom he considered as acquaintances that attended a lot of his parties came in his funeral. A few servants, his father and Nick and a man Nick called as "Owl-eyes" are the few people who attended the funeral.
I admire Nick Carraway too. I think that he is the only one who really appreciated Jay Gatsby. He’s the one who struggled so he could arrange Gatsby’s funeral, calling everyone who knew Gatsby and we shared the same feelings of disgust to those people who refuses to or make excuses to not attend Gatsby’s funeral. A lot of people had been accusing Gatsby of illegal activities because of his wealth but Nick never believed anything of those. The most memorable scene for me would be the scene where he told Gatsby "They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together." I remember he was glad that he was able to tell him that and it was obvious that it made Gatsby feel happy.
The novel had entertained me and saddened me. It made me feel various kinds of emotions that would only happen when I read a very good book. I must say that The Great Gatsby is an exceptional novel and a must read. The novel also taught me, just like what I said above, that money can’t really buy us happiness and by happiness I meant the real happiness that make us complete.
This quote, told by Nick Carraway’s father, had stuck with me from the beginning and until the end of the story. I just felt that somewhere in the novel, I would know how this saying will affect the characters, and me as well as a reader.
The Great Gatsby started simple, with Nick Carraway as the narrator, telling the story of his encounter with a man named Jay Gatsby. I could say that the whole novel hit me hard as well as the famous saying “Money can’t buy happiness” after reading it. It was beautifully written, focusing on the nature of people. It showed how people can be deceiving, how they can be a ‘leech’ as long as they have someone, in the form of a rich Gatsby, to use for their satisfaction. It also showed how money and richness can be useless in some point of life.
I admire the character of Gatsby. His love for Daisy Buchanan, the woman he loved years ago but now a married woman, is amazing although he was kind of blinded by that love. He was a poor man when he met and when he fell in love with Daisy and when he went to war, Daisy decided to marry another man named Tom Buchanan. Years later, an improved, rich Gatsby tried wooing her back by buying a mansion and throwing lavish parties in hopes that she would attend someday.
She did attend and they were able to talk once again, and driven by the strong emotions of the past, Daisy became attached to Gatsby again. In the end, I come to realize that Daisy just led him on and dropped him like a hot potato once she was confronted by things she would rather keep as a secret and when she accidentally killed Myrtle Wilson, her husband’s mistress by hitting her with the car she’s driving that belongs to Gatsby. Of course Gatsby took the blame for her.
I was really sad when Gatsby was killed. Tom Buchanan told Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, that it was Gatsby who killed his wife. It was not stated if he knew that it was really daisy who killed Myrtle. In the end, the two of them cut their connections with Gatsby. So George shot Gatsby with his gun then killed himself afterwards but the most heartbreaking scene for me was when no one of those people whom he considered as acquaintances that attended a lot of his parties came in his funeral. A few servants, his father and Nick and a man Nick called as "Owl-eyes" are the few people who attended the funeral.
I admire Nick Carraway too. I think that he is the only one who really appreciated Jay Gatsby. He’s the one who struggled so he could arrange Gatsby’s funeral, calling everyone who knew Gatsby and we shared the same feelings of disgust to those people who refuses to or make excuses to not attend Gatsby’s funeral. A lot of people had been accusing Gatsby of illegal activities because of his wealth but Nick never believed anything of those. The most memorable scene for me would be the scene where he told Gatsby "They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together." I remember he was glad that he was able to tell him that and it was obvious that it made Gatsby feel happy.
The novel had entertained me and saddened me. It made me feel various kinds of emotions that would only happen when I read a very good book. I must say that The Great Gatsby is an exceptional novel and a must read. The novel also taught me, just like what I said above, that money can’t really buy us happiness and by happiness I meant the real happiness that make us complete.