Liked It
4 of 5 members found this review helpful.
“How moving that Fitzgerald’s simple choice of that green light blinking in the dark distance was to become the most powerful symbol of the American Dream in our literature. It’s like Charles Foster Kane and his “Rosebud.”
Well, it’s just a perfect novel. It towers over everything else Fitzgerald wrote, almost suspiciously so, as if he sold his soul to the devil (a very Gatsby thing to do) in order to write the Great American Novel. If so, the devil has a keen sense of irony. “The...”
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Didn’t Like It
“I still wonder why we Dutch students were forced to read this apparently 'classic' American literature for our reading list, while we were supposed to learn British English. And why, if it was as clear from the start as it was, that we wouldn't resemble ourselves with any of the characters. And why, if we weren't even told why we should read it and what the thoughts behind it are.
If they did that, I might have understood it a little more, but to me, this book was just plain weird...”
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