THE GREAT GATSBY
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Satire, Modernism
Pages: 180
Prompts:
Is what you're reading believable? If so, why?
What surprises you in this story? Why?
The Great Gatsby is an amazing book. It has a movie (with Leonardo DiCaprio), plays, and more in its honor. But do you really know what it's about?
The Great Gatsby is about an educated young man named Nick Carraway who moves into a small house in a rich neighborhood during the summer of 1922 in pursuit of the knowledge of bond business. He meets his neighbor Jay Gatsby a great party thrower and a surprisingly young and naive man when it comes to love. He has loved a married woman named Daisy for years and due to Nick's relations with her Gatsby tells him to invite her over so they can meet. After an awkward time they fall in love like younger times but her husband, who has been cheating with a woman named Myrtle is infuriated after finding out of her cheating. After a heated confrontation between Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy the Great Gatsby and Daisy are both found in a car with the dead body of Myrtle. Myrtle's husband is enraged and confronts Gatsby, who took the blame to protect Daisy, and kills him and then commits suicide. After having a small funeral in Gatsby's honor Nick leaves back to the midwest in deep thought and disgust of their actions.
The Great Gatsby is extremely believable. Everything that happens in the book could very well happen in real life. People do cheat in hopes of true love and warmth like Myrtle with Tom and Daisy with Gatsby. Marriage is not always a happy tale and the Great Gatsby shows that. It also shows that in real life circumstances sometimes override true love. People also kill when driven to a corner with rage or shame. Everyday thousands of people are murdered no matter what the reason. There is no escaping death and for these people it comes early.
After reading the book I was extremely surprised at the sequence of events. In the beginning the book was peaceful with it's events but after giving us an introduction goes to the extremes with love crimes (cheating) and murders as well as suicides. When Daisy and Gatsby got together again I thought that Tom and Daisy would simply divorce because both of them were already cheating with others and didn't have a stable relationship. But instead the confrontations turned violent and Myrtle was killed by Daisy, Gatsby was killed by George, and George was killed by his own hands. It was a horrific ending with a realistic portrayal of life and how fate can't be controlled and how things don't always end in a happily ever after.
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