The Great Gatsby

[Tidusauron12]

I have to read and annotate this short for my AP Language Arts class. Before I begin, I thought I would ask peoples' opinions of the work here. Is it good? What themes should I look out for? What problems do you have for the novel or the author himself?

[emotoaster]

It's good. I hate reading though. Themes mainly talk about the Decline of the American Dream, Corruption of society in the 20's, love, hiding ones self. There are more but this is what I can think of off the top of my head.

[Haro!]

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books ever! It is awesome and you should read it Tidusauron. That is all.

[kenshinbebop]

Hey! I'm in AP Language and Literature and I'm reading that right now!

I'm suppose to finish it this weekend. It's a really good book so far, but I had the ending ruined for me. :(

Really good book though, and I like the author. I bought his collection of short stories. He wrote the Curious Case of Benjamin Button that is now a movei in theaters.

I don't have any problems with him or the book really.

As for themes...the spirit of the "Jazz Age" and the differentiation of social classes are very prominent.

[Haro!]

For high school I wrote about how GG has the theme of you have to get that paper or else you'd be *****less. Or something like that. Money = women, old sport.

[Leader Desslock]

I'd say it's a very good novel, but one which I personally find rather uninteresting. I had it assigned by one too many teachers/professors over the years, so I'm not keen to read it again any time ... ever again, really.

It probably didn't help that I've never been interested in that era / high society, etc. It's basically a very well-written novel about a group of people I don't care about, doing things I don't care about, in a time when nothing much matters to me. But it is well-written, and I can enjoy it for the mechanics of the narrative, if nothing else.

[Hara!]

The Great Gatsby's ending is the 2girls1cup of popular 20th century literature. Okay, not that bad. More like the Pain Olympics, because it gets you in the balls.

I loved how it portrayed upper-class disillusionment, though. I guess money really can't buy happiness...

[goddessofanime]

Read it years ago.

I found it pretty easy to read.

[xia]

I had to read that in AP english also in highschool...

And dont remember a damn thing.
Except that I had found it to be pretty good.