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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