Review: The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald-Notes & Highlights

I borrowed this book from the Heroes Regional Glendale Library on 6/29/22. This is my second time reading it and Ale’s first! Ale borrowed the copy that I own from the Denise Library and she has a receipt and library card and everything!! XD

This will be the sixth book from our Sister Book Club. We will be reading one chapter a day because it is such a short book. Ale chose this one.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald YouTube Playlist:

The Great Gatsby - Official Trailer #1 [HD]

The great Gatsby 10 minute book report by the Family Guy

The Real Question is... | Moxie #shorts

I bought this used from an online book store for cheap because I love cheap prices! :D Ale borrowed this book from Denise's library to read for our Sister Book Club.

I read from this book that I borrowed from the Heroes Regional library. I like doing that.

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“‘I'm the Sheik of Araby.

Your love belongs to me.

At night when you're asleep

Into your tent I'll creep—’” (78).

“When Klipspringer had played The Love Nest he turned around on the bench and searched unhappily for Gatsby in the gloom.

‘I'm all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn't play. I'm all out of prac—’

‘Don't talk so much, old sport,’ commanded Gatsby. ‘Play!’

‘In the morning,

In the evening,

     Ain’t we got fun—’

Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

‘One Thing's sure and nothing's surer

  The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

  In the meantime,

  In between time—’” (94-95).

“Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment” (104).

“Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps, where Three O'Clock in the Morning, a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door” (108).

“As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below” (127).

“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust” (151).

Edit (7/14/2022): I was just thinking that maybe one of the lessons in this book is that you will die if you try to repeat the past. I am currently reading the graphic novel adaption for this novel and this probably has something to do with why I thought about this.

These videos were always fun! I was first introduced to them in my high school English classes. I like the last thing he said about the significance of the green light. It reminded me of the way I and many people idealize New York City and other great cities like fabulous Las Vegas.