The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Short and easy read with beautifully developed characters whose lives spring to vivid life and stand before your very eyes through Fitzgerald's striking and clever descriptions. The Great Gatsby tells a story of struggle to shake off the humdrum life of the upper class and all it's pretenses. In this struggle the characters briefly express their best and worst qualities in a feral attempt towards a brave existence. However, when they discover that their attempts would require a certain level of discomfort of which they are not accustom to, they quickly shun the notion of an authentic existence and lazily fall directly into the padded and dull existence that they were trying so desperately to escape.

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