Books Read: The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Gatsby's love for Daisy is what led them to tragedy. Before the war he was a soldier, a man with nothing to leave behind. The he met Daisy in Louisville. He was seduced by Daisy's world that he loved her. But then Gatsby left for the war and Daisy had to do the right thing, to secure herself of a stable future. She found that in Tom Buchanan. They lived in a house with sprawling lawns facing the water in East Egg, Long Island. Gatsby made himself into the man he thought Daisy would leave everything for. He lived across from her in West Egg and threw parties. The prose is highlight worthy, especially the latter chapters. Narrated by Gatsby's neighbor, Nick Carraway, it shows how lives are tangled together that one cannot escape it fully. But Gatsby did, and it wasn't his decision to.



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