The Great Gatsby Book Review

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
Robert Penn Warren

The Great Gatsby, a novel created by F. Scott Fitzgerald on April 10, 1925. This takes place after World War One in which American Society was doing well as the economy soared. This is call the “roaring” 1920’s.

The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world.

Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a young bachelor from a patrician Midwestern family, who graduates from Yale in 1915. After fighting in World War One, he returns to the Midwest before settling in New York City to "learn the bond business." Despite his wealthy upbringing, Nick lives very modestly.

While Nick is not wealthy to a full extent, his cousin, Daisy with her husband, Tom, gave a full description how money gives people power around that time.

There was an affair going on too being Tom and a person named Mytrle, that fiend!

Nick accompanies Tom and Myrtle to their Manhattan love-nest, where Myrtle presides over a pretentious party that includes her sister and several others. Nick learns that Tom and Myrtle began their affair following a chance encounter on a train. Though he finds the evening increasingly unbearable, he does not leave until Tom slaps Myrtle for speaking Daisy's name, which breaks her nose.

Nick did not seem to care, until he meets his neighbor, Gatsby. Gatsby has an interest with author’s cousin, Daisy. Gatsby knew the only was to get her attention was to become rich and become word on the town. Gatsby was a bootlegger, but it was the quickest way to get rich since people have money to spend.

All this happened during a huge economic boom yet people in the middle of two cities were poor, what the heck. Second, why did Tom not just stick to one of the women he was dating? It caused serious problems at the end for all of them since Daisy runs over Mytrle and, Gatsby pays the price with his own life because The husband of Mytrle thought it was him.

My perspective:

This is indeed a classic book for keeping everything mysterious and confusing for me. I remember reading this book in the 11^th grade as an assignment. I never really took interests in books that I am forced to read *ahem Twilight* serious since I found them ended up being boring.

That was my perspective of every book assigned, but I ended up liking this book. I am going to admit this book can be confusing to people since how he describe certain objects, location seemed confusing, but analyzing the descriptions will fix that problem.

The location of the book is the main course seeing how the rich people lived after World War One.

Overall

This was a good book if a person takes their time to analyze what the author tired to say in the book. The concept was good and I would gladly reread this book, if I can find my own copy somewhere in the dorm I am currently in. I take my books, that is not a bad idea in my view.

9.5/10