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A review by abinthebooks
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.0
*4.5
I don’t really know how to write reviews for classics, it’s such a hard thing to do. Everyone else is putting pretty words and pretty quotes in their reviews and I’m just like “should I just review it like a normal book???” Anyways beside my internal monologue, I feel like 99% classics are 300+ pages of deep thoughts, pretty writing, psychological meanings, and highly unlikeable or very likable characters. And that’s really what The Great Gatsby was. I don’t really know what my expectations were going in, but I feel as though they were exceeded.
This story was so beautiful and so melancholic. I cannot believe I enjoyed Gatsby as a character as much as I did. He was captivating but from the moment we see him first introduced, he’s very lonely and sad. I really sympathized with him the entire time, and I loved his character arc. (Also btw, Gatsby isn’t the narrator of the story which really surprised me but I ultimately agree with the decision not to make him the narrator, he definitely would have concocted it into a love story).
Also Fitzgerald’s writing is bewitching. His prose is utterly stunning, and his metaphors are absolutely incredible. I couldn’t stop tabbing pages of The Great Gatsby because I kept finding so many pretty quotes. It was also so interesting to read about the thrilling night-life of the 20s, especially New York City at the time. I had to stop reading at times because I was laughing so hard at how utterly ridiculous these characters were, and their ideals and values (because they were party people ya know?)
I guessed the ending for this, but I ultimately wasn’t too mad because I really really liked this overall. I think I reread this in a few years I’ll definitely appreciate just as much, probably more to be honest. Overall, definitely worth the read.
- I know I’m supposed to hate Daisy but I don’t exactly, there were times where I laughed at her and sympathized with her character. Tom however…
- You know what Tom? Screw you, you sucked and you definitely didn’t deserve Daisy
- Just me arguing with fictional characters, nothing to see here
Ok I’m done (:
I don’t really know how to write reviews for classics, it’s such a hard thing to do. Everyone else is putting pretty words and pretty quotes in their reviews and I’m just like “should I just review it like a normal book???” Anyways beside my internal monologue, I feel like 99% classics are 300+ pages of deep thoughts, pretty writing, psychological meanings, and highly unlikeable or very likable characters. And that’s really what The Great Gatsby was. I don’t really know what my expectations were going in, but I feel as though they were exceeded.
This story was so beautiful and so melancholic. I cannot believe I enjoyed Gatsby as a character as much as I did. He was captivating but from the moment we see him first introduced, he’s very lonely and sad. I really sympathized with him the entire time, and I loved his character arc. (Also btw, Gatsby isn’t the narrator of the story which really surprised me but I ultimately agree with the decision not to make him the narrator, he definitely would have concocted it into a love story).
Also Fitzgerald’s writing is bewitching. His prose is utterly stunning, and his metaphors are absolutely incredible. I couldn’t stop tabbing pages of The Great Gatsby because I kept finding so many pretty quotes. It was also so interesting to read about the thrilling night-life of the 20s, especially New York City at the time. I had to stop reading at times because I was laughing so hard at how utterly ridiculous these characters were, and their ideals and values (because they were party people ya know?)
I guessed the ending for this, but I ultimately wasn’t too mad because I really really liked this overall. I think I reread this in a few years I’ll definitely appreciate just as much, probably more to be honest. Overall, definitely worth the read.
- I know I’m supposed to hate Daisy but I don’t exactly, there were times where I laughed at her and sympathized with her character. Tom however…
- You know what Tom? Screw you, you sucked and you definitely didn’t deserve Daisy
- Just me arguing with fictional characters, nothing to see here
Ok I’m done (: