On The Great Gatsby and Turning 30

"...I just remembered that today's my birthday."
-Nick Harroway, The Great Gatsby 

About a month ago I finally finished The Great Gatsby for the first time since High School, wherein I realized was that this isn't a book for High Schoolers at all.

Much like how "We Are Young" by Fun isn't actually about being young, but about how "Tonight we are young"--that is, we haven't been young in awhile and may never be again--The Great Gatsby is not about the recklessness of youth, but of the reckle...