Gatsby

I went to see Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby with a friend on Saturday night. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of my favorite books growing up. I’m not alone. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and quite possibly ‘The Great American Novel’. The book explores themes of decadence, idealism, social upheaval, and excess in the prosperous early 1920s. The ‘roaring’ twenties as it were.

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And I don’t care what the critics say about this la...