The Great Gatsby. This book to me was probably one of the best I have ever read. When I started reading the first couple chapters my initial reaction was a feeling of confusion and misunderstanding. I did not get disgusted with it like I sometimes tend to do, but finally began to understand what was going on, and was beginning to get interested.
In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald carefully chooses words to describe this magnificent, wealthy Jay Gatsby and his chance to show his love for Daisy Buchanan. A tragedy that is miserable but funny and most of all about something everyone can relate to. A weird sense of love that in the end, no matter write or wrong steals life for all its meaning. In this novel his choice of words is very eloquent and makes you enjoy every little aspect in the book. Fitzgerald helps the reader to become one with the story and interact with the characters. He uses a great sense of imagery in this novel that portrays an almost real life picture. His use of figurative language in this is what makes it smooth and flow just like a piece of poetry. Fitzgerald published this book in 1925 using the actual time in history, which helps to understand what kind of character Gatsby was. The time of “The Roaring Twenties.” Fitzgerald‘s portrayal of the time period creates lifelike characters. My reason for this is so that the readers can really interpret and see for themselves if Gatsby was really “Great.”
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Ray, you make a number of assertions here about the novel, and in the future I'd like to see you follow through more fully with some analysis in support of these. Even if you were to point to a moment in the novel that you feel embodies one, some, or all of these, you would greatly aid your reader in better understanding why you have the response that you did as you read Fitzgerald's novel.
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