Book Review: The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest narrated books.
Beyond the feeling of actually living the story, it takes you into a world of a mysterious man — Jay Gatsby — whose story slowly unravels. Insecure, and crazed in love, Gatsby does the impossible to get his old lover Daisy back. The story slowly becomes a story of fanaticisim, and everything transpires for you to see that not everything is as it seems.

This story for me underlines important issues when it comes to relationships, and friendships as well. We can see how there is a lot of mistrust between Daisy and Tom, and the rest of the group with Jordan and Nick. The group is basically comprised of people who don’t trust each other at all, but are in one way or another dependent upon each other.

Fitzgerald draws the character of Jay Gatsby in every role of his perfectly. Innocent. Madly in love. Cheating and Conniving. Every one of these roles, he does not fail to appear exactly how he means to appear. It is then not a surprise that one would find Gatsby and Daisy to be a perfect fit, since she too plays all those roles perfectly. Daisy acts innocent with Tom, while she is at the same time very conniving, and cheating.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has truly written a masterpiece in The Great Gatsby. From the narration, to the characters, to the whole story. It all makes one great fiction novel that is hard to beat in any modern era.

5/5