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A review by willowbiblio
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
dark
emotional
reflective
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
4.0
"The bored haughty face concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning- and one day I found out what it was."
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I didn't love this as much as I remembered, although it was very fun to read my old annotations and thoughts. Still a fun revisit! Gatsby was ultimately the most sympathetic of the main characters- including the narrator, Nick. This was because everything he did was in pursuit of a dream- flawed or not. Many of the characters surrounding him had no such governing purpose which was reflected by their listlessness and greed.
I thought the homoerotic undertones from Nick were interesting. Did he sleep with the man from the party, as implied, or was that just a random paragraph from Fitzgerald?
The use of colors to convey meaning and misdirection was really interesting. Specifically the perversion of white- something typically associated with purity and innocence. Clothing Jordan and Daisy in this color for their introduction was a smart misdirection.The rarely concealed violence and rage of Tom was interesting, and how Daisy made the reader instantly aware of it in an attempt at nonchalance about her finger being broken.
The book in general made me think of a common rags to riches theme- you'll never truly be "in" and when things go South the "in" will protect their own.
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I didn't love this as much as I remembered, although it was very fun to read my old annotations and thoughts. Still a fun revisit! Gatsby was ultimately the most sympathetic of the main characters- including the narrator, Nick. This was because everything he did was in pursuit of a dream- flawed or not. Many of the characters surrounding him had no such governing purpose which was reflected by their listlessness and greed.
I thought the homoerotic undertones from Nick were interesting. Did he sleep with the man from the party, as implied, or was that just a random paragraph from Fitzgerald?
The use of colors to convey meaning and misdirection was really interesting. Specifically the perversion of white- something typically associated with purity and innocence. Clothing Jordan and Daisy in this color for their introduction was a smart misdirection.The rarely concealed violence and rage of Tom was interesting, and how Daisy made the reader instantly aware of it in an attempt at nonchalance about her finger being broken.
The book in general made me think of a common rags to riches theme- you'll never truly be "in" and when things go South the "in" will protect their own.