The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)

Classic novel that gives perspective to social life in the roaring 20s. There are parties, drama, romance, and death. Makes for a fun short read.

Fitzgerald critiques the American dream, showing the impossibility to transgress your birth status and attain what belongs to the old money upper classes. Heartbreaking portrayal of the constant exploitation and abandonment of the bourgeois.

This book always inspires debates and reflective thought after reading. I enjoy making my own conclusions as to reason, motivation etc... yet I have yet to find any 2 people that can read the same book and come to the same conclusions. Classic book and a great read for so many reasons!

Its a classic.

This book was melancholic. I don't regret reading it one bit but I do believe this is the type of book that needs to be studied and researched after reading to truly understand the weight of it. This is the perfect book to start getting into classic literature - it's the first classical book I've ever read. It's easy to understand and shorter than the other classical books I've seen. The writing gets you immersersed even though it took me brain power to understand some discriptions. This isn't the kind of book you can turn your brain off to read, you need to focus and hang on to every word. I truly do understand why this is such a well-loved classic. After researching more about this book: This book is absolutely beautifully written and conveys the message it set out for clearly and impactfully. The author writing the story from the POV of a narrator we desperately want to trust and having us see everything through rose colored glasses only to shatter the illusion is perfection. This beautifully encompasses our desire for material things or "the American dream" while showing us that this dream leaves us emptier than when we started.