/lit/ - Literature

what age were you when you read The Great Gatsby, did you understand and enjoy it at that age?

I just finished reading the great gatsby and I have a paper to write about how this book is a great american novel.

I seriously have no idea how to answer this question because all I see this book to be about is the story of some rich guy trying to get with this girl and the big mess ups that occur in the process.

can anyone fill me in on this? im normally really good at understanding the meaning of a book, but this one just seems like another cheap drama novel.

I think Nick is the perfect example of an unreliable narrator. Both the opening and closing passages work well to support him as being an unreliable narrator.

Am i the only one who never noticed that the eyes in the cover of Great Gatsby are two naked chicks?
Mind=blown

What's the best/your favorite book you had to read for school? Pic related.

So today in english we had to sign up for presentations on books that we haven't even read yet. I signed up for the last one and its "the Great Gatsby".

Did I fuck up?

Let's have a simpler thread. Post your favorite literary work.

How does the fact that Nick is mostly just a bystander reveal society's assumptions or moral values?
Like how he sees the two sides of the upper class rich society, the new rich (Gatsby) and the artistocratic rich (Tom, Daisy, Jordan, etc.)

help please.

Picking up some books, what do I get?


Lolita
Breakfast of Champions
Animal Farm
War and Peace
The Man in the High Castle
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Something Happened
Alas, Babylon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Stand
A Confederacy of Dunces
Anything by Cormac McCarthy (Barring The Road. Read it already.)

Suggestions not listed are also helpful.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . And one fine morning -

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Picture very fucking related.