Periodic but Timeless (The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Member Name: mcader

Product:	The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date:	06/02/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Mood piece and deep

Disadvantages: v.American setting and age

Timeless writing, lost like the quality of dream. The searching spirits, striving for what they may never, spiritually, attain in this world, where self-delusion motivates, social tendencies can seem shallow. Friendships; empathy amid the cold but natural human tendencies. Incorruptible dreams amid corruption. The quality of character questioned. Observant, non-participatory narration, depicts the beauty, the waste, the prejudices and insecurity, fragility; time passing.

It's indeed a deep book; many shades. Honest, romantic, beautiful, sorrowful. Emptiness found in the richest vistas. It has a resigned tone, but with affection for the failing of Gatsby, confronting the dream that has died, and is always dying. It's a Greek Tragedy really.

I can't get the actor Robert Redford out of my head for Gatsby, because he was just the perfect casting for this bygone age. If u like this classic, u'll like the slower Brideshead Revisited by Eveleyn Waugh, and Donna Tartt's more recent, student classic The Secret History.

Summary: Greek tragedy really