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A review by amyschmelzer
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.0
This was written during the Roaring 20s when certain people acted as if Prohibition weren’t a thing. The Great War was in the recent past and the widespread poverty of the Great Depression wasn’t yet a thing. Hard to believe The Great Gatsby will be 100 years old next year.
Our narrator, Nick Carraway, lives in an $80 a month shack on Long Island. His place is sandwiched between two mansions that rent for $10-$12k a season. One of his neighbors, Jay Gatsby, throws massive parties every night. People come far and wide to drink Gatsby’s booze. They don’t even have to know him. They just show up.
In this messy, sad story we also meet Nick’s cousin Daisy, her husband Tom, Tom’s girlfriend Myrtle, and Myrtle’s husband George and others.
I had a vague recollection of reading this in high school. I am pleased to say it’s better than I remember.
This does contain words that would be considered racist today as well as some domestic violence.
Our narrator, Nick Carraway, lives in an $80 a month shack on Long Island. His place is sandwiched between two mansions that rent for $10-$12k a season. One of his neighbors, Jay Gatsby, throws massive parties every night. People come far and wide to drink Gatsby’s booze. They don’t even have to know him. They just show up.
In this messy, sad story we also meet Nick’s cousin Daisy, her husband Tom, Tom’s girlfriend Myrtle, and Myrtle’s husband George and others.
I had a vague recollection of reading this in high school. I am pleased to say it’s better than I remember.
This does contain words that would be considered racist today as well as some domestic violence.