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I am about to read The Great Gatsby! Just want to know your opinion!

What is your general impression of this book?
How would you described it in one word?
 vanillaicecream posted over a year ago
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MGGLover said:
The Great Gatsby is an amazing book! In fact it is my favorito novel ever. In one word: AMAZING!! Did you finish it and did you enjoy it?
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SRitchieable said:
descrição in one word: "Penetrating."

This is a story of wealth - new money vs old money - but it is also a story about values/moral compass. As the narrator - a Middle American would-be bond trader says - "Morality may be founded on a rock or on a fairy's wing, but after a point I don't care what it's founded on. After Gatsby died, I came back west and wanted the world to stand in to a rigid moral attention forever."

The narrator has seen the hollowness of a world/society that is based on nothing but money-status-eliteness. In a strange sense, Gatsby rises somewhat about this - through his devoted doomed 'Lancelot&Guinevere' for (established rich) Daisy. Not that margarida is 'worth it', but por his devotion Gatsby shows he has mais moral/emotional capacity/development/potential than the other characters. That's why Gatsby is described as the "Great Gatbsy." In a sense, he has an ideal (though a flawed one) in a world that has lost its ideals. He dies, not in a sense that says 'Love isn't worth it', but in a sense that warns: Make sure who you amor is worth it.

Right near the end of the novel, the narrator suddenly says to Gatsby - just before Gatsby dies - "They're [the rest of the people in this story] a rotten bunch! You're worth the whole damn crowd put together!"

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