By: Nadia Scores

Nadia Scores — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:18 +0000

"The Great Gatsby". The title itself brings back memories of the days when I first read the book. I didn’t really take to the book in high school when it was a part of the syllabus. Recently, I reread the book just to understand why people think it’s so great. And I realized that despite the controversies, “The Great Gatsby” is a classic. The book throws light on the elite in New York during the Prohibition era. The characters are fascinating to say the least. Jay Gatsby, we learn, is not who he says he is. He is James Gatz who comes from a poor background and has lots of money from doing `shady’ business. (Has he achieved the `American Dream’ of becoming `Someone’? ) And yet he is a character that we remember long after the book is put down. Love and revenge and marital infidelity and superficiality run throughout the novel. In high school I didn’t fully grasp the depth of the book. Today, I think the years of “maturing” have helped to see that we’re all still the same—caught up in the superficialities of life—perhaps still struggling to be somebody we are not. Shoomp helped a lot in getting my perspective right.

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[...] books starting with The Great Gatsby which I’m reading for the Classics Bookclub at 5 Minutes for Books. I’ll have that review up next [...]

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