/lit/ - Literature

What was so great about him? He came off as an incel NEET if anything.

I ended up enjoying it eventually, but it took me forever to get through The Great Gatsby

We used to read the Great Gatsby-
now all kids care is about is where the great gyatts be.

Books for falling hopelessly in love with a girl at 25

Not being alive in the 1920s causes me so much pain

What a book that EVERY woman likes? I got Great Gatsby for my gf, im not sure its a good gift. She has 99 iq btw

You fuckers lied to me, this is literally the most kino book I've read this year. It inspired me to write like nothing before and it is utterly relatable if you're not a shut-in NEET.

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Having one of the most iconic and eye catching cover arts in the history of literature you choose to post the ugly hollywood film version instead?

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What is your opinion of it + why?

>My favourite book is The Great Gatsby.
What kind of person do u imagine?

Why aren't people this rich anymore?

Did he deserve to die?

I don't get it.

The Great Gatsby. I wouldn't say it's a good, but I wouldn't say it was a bad either. It was ok. This is a personal take because I'm not (and never was) into the romance genre, and I can understand how someone who likes that genre would fall in love with this book. 6/10 (Consider this as a "little above average" book score)

That said, I will only focus the post on the positive: I enjoyed the characters, specially Gatsby and Tom. Most chapters are entertaining from start to end. Chapter 7 and 8 were amazing, if written differently it could have been a very good mystery novel. It was a short novel, I think I read it in 4 or 5 days. The author was very progresive for making the protagonist gay or bisexual in a book of 1925 (Or at least, that's my interpretation of Nick, due to the end of chapter 2 and the Gatsby funeral)

Obviously most of the book is in first person. But there are a few parts where the story is being told from Gatsy's perspective, where we get his thoughts and ideas and what happened to him. But the story doesnt simply switch to third person when this happens; its still in first person. Nick is still narrating but telling us what Gatsby told him. Is there a technical term for this? Its a strange middle ground between third and first person I've rarely seen used.

Disappointing as fuck, why is it rated so high?

do americans really enjoy this? I don't get it

BROKE
>The Great Gatsby is about the decadence of the Jazz Age
WOKE
>The Great Gatsby is an autobiography
ENLIGHTENED
>The Great Gatsby only has one character, and it's F. Scott Fitzgerald
>Fitzgerald used it as a way to tell his story of his extremely traumatic life of dissociation and of multiple personalities

ITT: post your favorite closing lines to any book, i'll start:

>And so it turned out that, in the end, Gatsby wasn’t so great after all

Can anyone help me understand why this book is considered as Great American Novel? I don't understand why it is better than any YA fiction.

>Supposedly the greatest Novel that Americans are capable of producing
>Is literally High School tier literature

What did the Americans mean by this??