A review by rae607
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5.0

I reread "The Great Gatsby" along with my younger daughter, who was reading it for the first time as part of her 11th-grade English class. Though her teacher insists the only overarching theme here is class, I find the book full of longing. The poor long to be rich, the newly rich long to be accepted among the establishment, and members of the establishment long for novelty and fun, no matter the literal or metaphoric cost. And above all, of course, Gatsby longs for Daisy. I came away from this encounter with the novel finding that I could no longer identify with Nick Carraway at all; in fact, there's not one likable character on these pages. Still, the indelible impression the book leaves on the imagination makes it worth returning to Fitzgerald and seeing what he has to offer in whatever season of life you may be living.