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I absolutely did not like this book and the fact that so many people do makes me feel like I'm missing something. After many many years of pushing this off, and after a failed attempt last year, I finally pushed through and read this freaking book. It's very short, and I thought it would be quiet and easy but it felt like it took forever. I'll start with the positives, because there are only a few. The writing was good and interesting and definitely managed to paint of picture of the time and pl
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The Great Gatsby is considered the great American Novel for a reason: it is really the first novel to deal with an American issue; namely, class. Gatsby represents a sort of modern con man who has made his money in many questionable ways and is a member of New Money. He is attempting to compete with the established Old Money for Daisy, his love. Fitzgerald shows that Daisy, like America, has changed for the worse in the association with her husband, that Gatsby's dream which never really materia
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