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The Great Gatsby

Format: Paperback
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ReleaseDate: 01 June, 1995
Publisher: Scribner
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Anti-semetism, racism and more in GG
He can't stand the thought of mixed relationships, "next thing they'll have intermarriage between blacks and whites" (p. Tom Buchanan is the super-rich, unforgivingly prejudiced symbol of white manly strength and perfection.137). Oddly enough Fitzgerald gives Tom that line to describe the significance of the suspected extra marital affair between his wife Daisy and Gatsby. Was he inferring that becuz Gatsby was not a European white (Tom refers to himself and his crowd as Nordics) he was doomed to fall?

Tom's a avid reader of white power literature alluding to the authors as "scientists". He warns everyone that 'coloured' races will take over if left unchecked. Airheaded Daisy (the rich and of course white object of Gatsby's affection) agrees, remarking admiringly, "Tom's. . very profound".

Tom also chooses the underdog to conduct an illicit affair--his mechanic's wife, Myrtle. Of course Tom goes unpunished for his adulterous behaviour while Myrtle is killed in a hit and run, courtesy of Daisy, who also gets off unscathed. Gatsby takes the fall for her.

James Gatz is of course a Jewish name, which Gatsby changed in his late teens showing his own shame for his ethnicity. Of course the shifty Jewish criminal, Mr. Wolfsheim has a poor command of the English language. Nick, the narrator mocks his versions of "Oggsford" for Oxford and "goneggtion" for connection.

At the end the poorest people are wiped out, the mechanic and his cheating wife (for whom Tom sheds a hypocritical crocodile tear). Narrator Nick refers to the mechanic's death as "the holocaust".

Can't say I enjoyed this novel, Gatsby fell in foolish love with a high-maintenance, forbidden woman because she was white, full of money and the fineries that went with it. It wasn't a pure love story. In the end Gatsby paid with his life while Tom and Daisy (who I'll call a spineless murderess for not admitting to anyone her responsibility in the manslaughter of Myrtle) continue their high lifestyle scot-free.

Was Fitzgerald trying to say the underclass doesn't have or deserve a chance in hell?.

Not a good Book, but a good story
It's a borring story, not sad, not anything, because the narrator is so tedious with his words, so bland with his description, it all just occurs in front of him, without a thought on it. The story was good, but the way it is told makes it bland, uneventful, and without any true emotional grasp. Nick Galloway is possible the worst narrator in the history of character narrations, and as such, made the book very boring for me. However the idea was there, the idea was good, and the idea was something that intrigued me. .

A good story, poorly told

Despite the rave reviews, this emperor has no clothes. I skipped this in high school, reading it now for the first time at 55 years of age. In fact, this book is a model of how NOT to tell a story.
The tale itself is excellent; compact and full of surprises and irony. But it is submerged in such a wordy, tedious, self-absorbed monotone that the reader can only appreciate it in retrospect, when they have dragged it out of the muck, shaken it free of detritus and seen its bare form.
Prose, be damned. A good story, told for the ear of the reader, that's where prose is.
I feel genuinely sorry for every young person forced to read this when there are thousands of better choices. .