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A review by vylotte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.0
I've been wanting to read this for years, but other books and moods kept getting in the way. Finally, for my own personal 24 Hour Read-a-Thon challenge (read as many of the shorter books in my to read pile), I put this on the very top.
I can see why it's a classic of Americana. It is very much a slice of its time, yet still circling the eternal tropes of class differences, unhappiness even when you seem to have it all, and the fickleness of the human heart.
This was way more melancholy than I thought, there is a lot of angst rolled up in all the characters, and no one I would consider a "good" character. Instead, they were all shiny on the surface with dark and messed up cores, nicely conflicting natures that rang of truth.
I felt this was a obvious pipeline directly into Fitzgerald's psyche, and I'm glad I finally got to read it.
I can see why it's a classic of Americana. It is very much a slice of its time, yet still circling the eternal tropes of class differences, unhappiness even when you seem to have it all, and the fickleness of the human heart.
This was way more melancholy than I thought, there is a lot of angst rolled up in all the characters, and no one I would consider a "good" character. Instead, they were all shiny on the surface with dark and messed up cores, nicely conflicting natures that rang of truth.
I felt this was a obvious pipeline directly into Fitzgerald's psyche, and I'm glad I finally got to read it.