A review by angel____
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

medium-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? Yes

2.0

If you've ever wanted to read a book that will make you hate everyone and everything with few exceptions, read this. All the characters are well written to be flawed, however this had the opposite of the intended effect for me. I hate all these people and wish nothing but the worst for all of them. Except Jordan and Daisy they get a pass. Don't get me wrong the plot and overall writing is good, but the characters are almost to believably horrible to the point you don't care what happens to them at all even the narrator and protagonist are horrible.

Real lines from this book that ticked me off include (TW Antisemitism and Misogyny):

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.


A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fi ne growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half-darkness


Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply


I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pickout romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives,and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.


The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God
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