Great Gatsby Essay

   "They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." Nick says this to the man that is more than likely richer than any other person that he is associated with, but yet he means this in a whole other connotation, but why? I thought of another essay prompt that i would like to do, "What does this book offer to us that makes it so unique, creative, and just down to the point?" Although it sounds like a subject that can be written in more than likely a few books, I'm most likely gonna make it short, I apologize.
 
   The basic idea of the book is to make your own assumption on how to take it, becauss there are several different outcomes depending on how you read the book. That was my interpretation of it, and i thought that's what made it so unique, it led you to different directions once you had a certain path down. The book gave me mixed emotions of confusion, understanding, disorientation, and walked through the book, i felt like this book held my hand and kept saying, "You're on your own, kiddo." Personality is qhat makes this book so creative, usually, the book is in the perspective of a boring lifestyle or too exciting, this book is still in the perspective of someone, but in multiple people at the same time. Nick is seen as sort of the narrator of the story, to me, he seemed like an old man reminiscing his past to his sons and daughters whilst they grow up, and listen to what he experienced.

  Another creative aspect of this book is that it's psychological in a sort of way, because the details that disorient you can be important, but you end up forgetting them in the long run, which makes for a very unpleasant experience. I had mo idea where i was going with that, so let me rephrase. In the book, Fitzgerald plays around with the overall effect the book has towards his readers, he tends to "break the 4th wall" from time to time, but i guess it's just customary for the narrator to talk to the audience. He also makes a lot of good points without directly telling the audience, for example, when Gatsby is talking with Nick, he says, "Why live out your dreams if you have no one to share them with? Someone that you can open up your dreams to before they even happen." That really got to me, because i realized that's what i had been doing, and it made me wonder about what i had been doing.

  Wow, this was short, but lastly, the process that might have taken F. Scott Fitzgerald must have been absolutely worth it once the finishing product was put to production, as in distribution and manufacturing. The Great Gatsby was in my opinion, one of the best books i have read in a while. It was a rollercoaster of emotions that had its abrupt stops at times, but made up for it in the crucial details that reel you in like a fish to bait. We, the fish, come on schools, and are attracted to this, piece of history, that more than likely would leave us in a daze of amazement.

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