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The revival of Gatsby parties seemed to have missed the point of who Gatsby was. It seemed Baz didn’t see the film as a tragic commentary on the misguided capitalistic dream, or at least not enough to prevent the dance numbers and special effects to often take center stage.

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Baz’s style fits his name, and the movie is grand, dramatic, over the top and nearly absurd, but also beautiful, shocking and intense. When I saw the latest film version of The Great Gatsby (directed by Baz Luhrmann, of Moulin Rouge fame), I was disappointed and delighted. Wilson stood face to face, discussing in impassioned voices… Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke, and from time to time groaning faintly. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. No - Gatsby turned out all right at the end it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. Some choice non-spoiler quotes from the book: But none of those complaints stand in the way of what has always been a deeply worthwhile, and easy read. Some manners of speech feel staged, but not having been born until 50 years after it was written it’s hard to argue whether he got it right or wrong. It’s hard to tell at times what he is criticizing and what he’s simply observing).

He jumps though time and perspective but always makes you, as the reader, feel well cared for by the soft cushion of his narrative powers.īut there are moments that don’t age well: scenes of racism, which, on afterthought, were probably appropriate for 1920s America (and perhaps part of the commentary he was making about society. What makes the book sing is the first person narration, and how easy Fitzgerald makes it seem to blend internal thoughts with plotting, dialog and observation.

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It’s constructed as a series of slow burning time bombs that make you simultaneously want them to both go off to relieve the pressure, but not go off, so you can enjoy the way things are slowly unraveling for as long as possible. It’s irresistible as a writer to want to take it apart and see how it works. It’s a writer’s book in a way, since it’s so simple and in many way obvious, yet works so wonderfully well. There’s nothing that fancy or elaborate going on. How wrong he was.Īs a story outline, The Great Gatsby is simple.

Fitzgerald died in 1940 thinking himself a failure and that his work wouldn’t be remembered. It was twenty years after its publication in 1925 that it first became a classic.

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Many people are surprised to learn the book was headed for obscurity until it was chosen as a free book for soldiers during WWII. It’s a reference book for me, in that I find I experience the book differently each time I read it. Production notes: This ebook of The Great Gatsby was published by Global Grey in 2019.I’ve read the Great Gatsby more than a dozen times.

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This book has 150 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1925. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F.

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