My Rating: 6/5
GoodReads Rating: 3.82/5
This book is possibly one of the most oddly entertaining, wistful books I have ever read in my life. 10/10, even if it is an odd book, I promise you read it, and you will NEVER forget about it
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Overall Review
This is beautiful. The thing about this dream is, it's so metaphoric you don't even realize it. It's all about the American dream and the want for money and fame and class in every way. And here these people are who have everything that all Americans want, but they aren't happy.
Gatsby is the perfect example of this. He was everything a person could want, money, fame, kindness, class and an aura of scandal that leaves people thinking about him. Yet instead of this wonderful lovely man that you know he once was because of that ever so charming smile, you have the ghost a man throwing parties for utter strangers, quite completely miserable chasing the one thing that continued to escape him :love
When Gatsby was younger, him and Daisy were so in love. But then Gatsby left for war, and Daisy, who was big money, married Tom Buchanan, who was even bigger money. Now Gatsby's back, living right down the bay from Daisy's (not-so-happy happy) little family. TOm's having an affair, Daisy simply doesn't care. So the chase commences
Gatsby is rich now, possibly as rich as Daisy, but he doesn't have an actual name or please in society, but he still hopes Daisy loves him. He finally gets Daisy to say she still loves him, but he cannot get her to admit that she never loved Tom. So even if he got his wish, the love of his life, he can't ever truly get her because of her "love" for Tom, who is an unbearble ass, and Tom's refusal for a divorce. Gatsby wanted a love like they had in the past, but that's not possible.
And then *spoiler* Daisy kills Mrs. Wilson i think and you just start to think that people never really get what they deserve. And then Gatsby dies because Mrs. Wilson's husband found out that Gatsby's car killed his wife, even though Daisy was driving. No one knows that Daisy was driving and Gatsby gets murdered cold as if though he was the one at fault. Here, you KNOW, you completely break down and understand that it's a cruel, cruel world that doesn't belief in real karma and that the universe doesn't see equality as a government does. Even Nick, the narrator, despite his honesty came from a dishonest lineage of people paying off people. Because the only sincere person in the book, Jay Gatsby, was the person who ended up dead.
And another thought comes into play, did Gatsby really love Daisy? Or was he simply obsessed with the fame and money and elegance and Daisy was simply this in human form? That's something you have to decide.
So the American dream as most of us believe, isn't satisfied with a feeling of carefree-ness or class or "with enough money to have a nice car and enough whiskey to crash it." which is most definetly a misquoted john green opinion on this book. But, the American dream can only be satisfied with one thing: happiness.
