The Great Gatsby in Classics Without All the Class

Apr 30, 2010 rachel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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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. ...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Carol rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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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.

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Dec 08, 2012 Anthea Carson rated it it was amazing

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?
I really regret not having been ab ...more

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Oct 03, 2009 Jen rated it liked it

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 ...more

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Aug 21, 2013 Manda rated it really liked it

Shelves: male-pov, best-of-best, break-your-heart-kind-of-story, oh-god-nooo-moment, started-ok-ended-awesome, fall-into-history, flawed-hero-to-root-for, dat-ending, beauty-ambiguity-allegory, bright-lights-big-city

Though it took a couple attempts to get past the first chapter or so of this book, by the time we met the mysterious enigma that is Jay Gatsby, I couldn't put the story down.

Oh Gatsby, you poor loveable fool, and Daisy, you shallow girl who didn't deserve him. ...more

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