The Great Gatsby (1925) – F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book Review

Gatsby. That name itself had been intriguing me for quite a long time. In fact, a great deal of the mysterious affairs that surround this character stems from his strange name. That mystery and eeriness we feel about him separates him as one of the iconic characters of world literature.



There is a certain pleasure in trying to know about who this Gatsby is. With the narrator Nick, we are equally confused as to what this person could be. Is he an agent? A smuggler? A gangster? Or an ordinary American of the time obsessed with the American Dream? Being the magnum opus of Fitzgerald, Gatsby is both intriguing and exhilarating. It has all those qualities to fill you up with the seamy yet cajoling side of the ‘hedonistic jazz age’ and leave you with the feeling of not having dawdled for nothing.

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