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

4.0

As someone who didn’t read this in school and had no idea what this was about before reading it, I think it’s easy for some of the big literary themes and messages to get lost on me. The biggest takeaway I had for this one is the great lengths people will go to build a facade to feel seen but the facade creates loneliness because you aren’t ever truly known by anymore. This book also has covers the larger context for class disparity and “the American dream”. I was pleasantly surprised by the crime/mystery component toward the end. Overall, I see why this is popular especially in school but I think in some ways it’s been overhyped.