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It's probably only as an adult with years of life lived that one can understand the poignant sadness of that ending.
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Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society.
Another fantastic book ruined by reading it in high school listening to the teachers drone on about how this symbolized that. In particular I remember the eyeglasses on some billboard supposedly representing God. Let me ask you something, what difference does it make if something symbolizes something else in literature? Even if the author comes right out and claims that one thing symbolizes another, shouldn't that be something the reader experiences for himself?
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Whoo another classic that I read for school awhile back. I am a tough critic on The Great Gatsby. I gave it three stars seeing as I did not enjoy the novel whatsoever. I mean I found it extremely boring and could barely finish it for school. It just seemed to focus on the high ends of society during the Jazz age, come on I need some action in a novel! I could barely stand Daisy she was so airy and dimwitted, not to mention Miss Jordan Baker the famous female golfer. I feel she needed more charac
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