Book Review #1 - The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

In the day after I finished reading the book The Great Gatsby, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, I saw the movie adaptation. Comparing what I read with what I saw, I can conclude that I was able to understand almost everything. It means that there were some things that I didn’t understand like some situations in the beginning of the book and how some characters were feeling with the course of the book.

Now, it’s time to talk about the summary of the book. The story is set in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, who lives in West Egg (a fictional town) in Long Island, is the man who tells the story of his young and mysterious neighbour: Jay Gatsby, who lived in a big and luxurious house, where he gave the biggest parties just to try to see if he and Daisy Buchanan, his love when he was young and Nick’s cousin, came together. Throughout the book, Mr. Gatsby meets with Daisy but Tom, Daisy’s husbands, discovers that. Due to it, Gatsby ends up dying and nobody came to his house in his funeral, despite his parties being always full of people but the truth is that almost nobody really knew Gatsby. The book also talks about many themes such as decandence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess.

I won’t talk about any specific passage of the book but I think the descriptions of the parties given by Mr. Gatsby are really amazing because they show us the excess of that age and how the US was dragged into the Big Crash of 1929.

So, due to everything I talked in this review, I think this is a great book to be read. But if you don’t like reading or something like that, I recommend you to watch the movie because it is very similar to the book. For me, the worst thing is the plot because, when we compare it to the social themes explored and the way the author does it, it feels like a minor issue.