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~Final Thoughts on The Great Gatsby~
The Great Gatsby was a wierd book for me to read in the sense that I can’t really say difinitively if I really enjoyed it or not. The first six chapters of the book fall into the meh catergory for me. It’s npt until chapter 7 when when things pick up. This is the end game for the book and it kind of feels like all of the little seemingly inconvinient plot details culminate into the finale. I’m not gonna act like this is the finale to end all finales because it certainly had it’s flaws. First of all the confusion with everyone taking each others car to the city in chapter 7 is pretty dumb to me because it just simply seemed unecessary. It was just convoluted plot conviniece that I never found any reason for. Tom’s the one that suggested it so was it part of his master plan to get Gatsby killed? Also can we talk about Tom and Daisy for a second? This man Gatsby really waited on Daisy for five years, bought a huge mansion, nice car, and started throwing wild parties just to get her attention, and the chick doesn’t even show up to his funeral. Didn’t senf flowers or leave a note. Nope just poofed out of existene. I mean I get her and Tom ran a way as they were both accessories to murder. But Nick was right when referred to them as two careless people who deystroy things and then leave the mess for others to pick up. Daisy ran over someone while driving Gatsby’s car but somehoe Gatsby the one that ends up dead in a swimming pool? Also I feel for Gatsby as no one showed up to his funeral. I knew he was going to die but I didn’t predict that no one besides Nick and the Owl-Eyed Man would care enough about him to go. It makes sense that the Owl-Eyed Man is one of the only people that made it to Gatsby’s funeral as he was one of the only people to see him for who he really was. Back in cahpter 3, when Nick and Jordan found him in the library drunk and amazed that all the books were real he wasn’t just drunk talking. He was actually surprised that Gatsby had 100% authentic books in his house. He figured that they’d all be fake in order to keep in line with his facade but nope. This is why the Owl-Eyed Man came to Gatsby’s funeral:He was one of the few people to see Gatsby for who he really was. But anyway that was how feel about the whole end of the book stuff. Like I said I don’t know how I feel about it seeing as I disliked or was neutral to a lot of the chapters, but the ending was something worth reading in my opinion. It doesn’t fully redeem it in my eyes, but hey it’s pretty good.
I have mixed feelings about “The Great Gatsby.” I really enjoyed the beginning and middle of the book. Which is strange to say, because usually the ending the is the most enjoyable part. I was intrigued when reading about the lifestyle of Gatsby. I remember in Chapter 3 when Fitzgerald began to acquaint us with Gatsby and how he lives, there was part that stuck with me and that exact line is, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York-every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” It’s interesting to envision what that looks like in my opinion; someone delivering this fresh vibrant-colored fruit, and then in a matter of days it’s reduced to a lifeless peel. Another, line that really suck with me was, “… his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high, and once again I think that it’s interesting to envision something like that. I found that a lot of Fitzgerald’s writing in this book was so beautiful, and the way he used detail was in my opinion brilliant. Something else that I noticed is that when Nick, Jordan, and Tom return to the Buchanan estate, and Nick leaves to go wait for his taxi and finds Gatsby hiding in bushes watching over the house, because he’s waiting to see “if he tries to bother her,” and Nick goes goes back to the house and sees that Daisy and Tom were eating dinner, and “He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own,” and at four o’clock in the morning when she goes to her window and sees Gatsby and turns out the light I think she’s telling him that their relationship is over. The next day Daisy does not try to make contact with Daisy, or none that we know about. I think in that conversation that Tom made one last final run at Daisy and maybe said how much he loved her, and how it was going to be different, and things along those lines. However, I don’t think Daisy would have actually believed him, but to be frank I don’t know why she would have stayed with him.
“The Great Gatsby” was overall a great book. The plot, roles of the characters and settings that Fitzgerald out together would be a 9.5 out of 10. In chapter 7, the hottest day of the summer becomes a big effect on the characters. Since Gatsby was going to the Buchanon’s for lunch, this gave us a clue that things were going to intestify. Especially this was the part where Gatsby sees Tom along with Daisy. In chapter 8, Gatsby asks his groundskeeper not to drain the pool because summer was over and he wanted to use the pool at least once. I think this symbolizes that Gatsby was so caught up basically brainwashed with Daisy written all over his head he forgot how much wealth he had. He wasn’t enjoying as much as he had so the last thing he ever did was swim. When Gatsby died, Daisy didn’t send any message or flowers. Was Nick surprised that she didn’t send anything? Nick was surprised because he thought Daisy loved him so much and cared for him. Was I surprised? No I wasn’t surprised. From the time Daisy became a part of Gatsby’s life again, I knew she was trouble. Even if she was rich already, you could tell she was a gold digger. Nick’s final feeling towards Daisy and Tom was bad. He thought they were careless people and that they took a way out of the situation. Especially that Daisy didn’t confess considering the fact her “true love” died. I think the only reason she went with Tom was so that she wouldn’t be in trouble for killing Myrtle. The last sentence of the book probably represented maybe his experience how he built his wealth. There are many ways to interpret the last part of the story.
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~Final Thoughts on The Great Gatsby~
The Great Gatsby was a wierd book for me to read in the sense that I can’t really say difinitively if I really enjoyed it or not. The first six chapters of the book fall into the meh catergory for me. It’s npt until chapter 7 when when things pick up. This is the end game for the book and it kind of feels like all of the little seemingly inconvinient plot details culminate into the finale. I’m not gonna act like this is the finale to end all finales because it certainly had it’s flaws. First of all the confusion with everyone taking each others car to the city in chapter 7 is pretty dumb to me because it just simply seemed unecessary. It was just convoluted plot conviniece that I never found any reason for. Tom’s the one that suggested it so was it part of his master plan to get Gatsby killed? Also can we talk about Tom and Daisy for a second? This man Gatsby really waited on Daisy for five years, bought a huge mansion, nice car, and started throwing wild parties just to get her attention, and the chick doesn’t even show up to his funeral. Didn’t senf flowers or leave a note. Nope just poofed out of existene. I mean I get her and Tom ran a way as they were both accessories to murder. But Nick was right when referred to them as two careless people who deystroy things and then leave the mess for others to pick up. Daisy ran over someone while driving Gatsby’s car but somehoe Gatsby the one that ends up dead in a swimming pool? Also I feel for Gatsby as no one showed up to his funeral. I knew he was going to die but I didn’t predict that no one besides Nick and the Owl-Eyed Man would care enough about him to go. It makes sense that the Owl-Eyed Man is one of the only people that made it to Gatsby’s funeral as he was one of the only people to see him for who he really was. Back in cahpter 3, when Nick and Jordan found him in the library drunk and amazed that all the books were real he wasn’t just drunk talking. He was actually surprised that Gatsby had 100% authentic books in his house. He figured that they’d all be fake in order to keep in line with his facade but nope. This is why the Owl-Eyed Man came to Gatsby’s funeral:He was one of the few people to see Gatsby for who he really was. But anyway that was how feel about the whole end of the book stuff. Like I said I don’t know how I feel about it seeing as I disliked or was neutral to a lot of the chapters, but the ending was something worth reading in my opinion. It doesn’t fully redeem it in my eyes, but hey it’s pretty good.
I have mixed feelings about “The Great Gatsby.” I really enjoyed the beginning and middle of the book. Which is strange to say, because usually the ending the is the most enjoyable part. I was intrigued when reading about the lifestyle of Gatsby. I remember in Chapter 3 when Fitzgerald began to acquaint us with Gatsby and how he lives, there was part that stuck with me and that exact line is, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York-every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” It’s interesting to envision what that looks like in my opinion; someone delivering this fresh vibrant-colored fruit, and then in a matter of days it’s reduced to a lifeless peel. Another, line that really suck with me was, “… his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high, and once again I think that it’s interesting to envision something like that. I found that a lot of Fitzgerald’s writing in this book was so beautiful, and the way he used detail was in my opinion brilliant. Something else that I noticed is that when Nick, Jordan, and Tom return to the Buchanan estate, and Nick leaves to go wait for his taxi and finds Gatsby hiding in bushes watching over the house, because he’s waiting to see “if he tries to bother her,” and Nick goes goes back to the house and sees that Daisy and Tom were eating dinner, and “He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own,” and at four o’clock in the morning when she goes to her window and sees Gatsby and turns out the light I think she’s telling him that their relationship is over. The next day Daisy does not try to make contact with Daisy, or none that we know about. I think in that conversation that Tom made one last final run at Daisy and maybe said how much he loved her, and how it was going to be different, and things along those lines. However, I don’t think Daisy would have actually believed him, but to be frank I don’t know why she would have stayed with him.
“The Great Gatsby” was overall a great book. The plot, roles of the characters and settings that Fitzgerald out together would be a 9.5 out of 10. In chapter 7, the hottest day of the summer becomes a big effect on the characters. Since Gatsby was going to the Buchanon’s for lunch, this gave us a clue that things were going to intestify. Especially this was the part where Gatsby sees Tom along with Daisy. In chapter 8, Gatsby asks his groundskeeper not to drain the pool because summer was over and he wanted to use the pool at least once. I think this symbolizes that Gatsby was so caught up basically brainwashed with Daisy written all over his head he forgot how much wealth he had. He wasn’t enjoying as much as he had so the last thing he ever did was swim. When Gatsby died, Daisy didn’t send any message or flowers. Was Nick surprised that she didn’t send anything? Nick was surprised because he thought Daisy loved him so much and cared for him. Was I surprised? No I wasn’t surprised. From the time Daisy became a part of Gatsby’s life again, I knew she was trouble. Even if she was rich already, you could tell she was a gold digger. Nick’s final feeling towards Daisy and Tom was bad. He thought they were careless people and that they took a way out of the situation. Especially that Daisy didn’t confess considering the fact her “true love” died. I think the only reason she went with Tom was so that she wouldn’t be in trouble for killing Myrtle. The last sentence of the book probably represented maybe his experience how he built his wealth. There are many ways to interpret the last part of the story.