Aywren reviewed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby
4 stars
Been a while since I've read this - the audio book did it justice.
Paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published July 10, 2000 by Penguin Books.
4 stars
(22 reviews)
Day and Night Jay Gatsby's mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. (back cover)
Emily McLean reviewed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Review of 'The Great Gatsby' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
Laurens van den Broek reviewed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Review of 'The Great Gatsby' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Er zijn weinig romans zo splijtend als The Great Gatsby. De een vindt het met recht een tijdloze klassieker, de ander kan zo tien betere romans opdissen. Zelf behoor ik gelukkig tot de eerste groep. Het is een compacte, complete roman, vol met zelfingenomen (maar complexe) personages, mooi proza, symboliek en wijze inzichten. Hoe je aan decadentie ten onder kunt gaan wordt op schitterende wijze in kaart gebracht. De Roaring Twenties op zijn destructiefst.
