/lit/ - Literature

that's a pretty good cover

It's not.

Very third-rate. Read Ulysses instead.

>>3971202
Ulysses is I rish novel
very fart-rate

>>3971202

Evelyn Wough is better.

It was pretty fucking boring.
Soap opera tier.

>>3971170

it's the TMZ and Worldstarhiphop of the 1920s, of course it'll be popular...glamor, glitz, and materialism, etc.

read something more thoughtful OP

>>3971265
no, soap opera is at least good with its interconnecting plots.

>>3971170
itt:faggots

>>3971170
Because it's about interpersonal relationships rather than plot driving forces.

simple, stupid, vapid book

mainstream pap for the 1920's teen crowd. read something with more substance

>>3971265
> boring

ikr, Danny Brown is far more awesome and cool

It really isn't. You've just been led to think like this because you're american and thus all of your teachers and peers have praised this work. It's pretty nice, but outside the american audience it is just a nice little story about the bourgeoisie.

Check your american privilege and realize that nothing that came from your country is culturally relevant to the rest of the world.

>>3971316

He captured the essence of his time perfectly. Just because it doesn't suit your liking doesn't mean you shouldn't take his writing into consideration.

I personally loved it. I will agree I didn't enjoy the relationship between Gatsby and that girl, but I loved the way Gatsby was portrayed; as an enigma.

>could someone find a quote for the book, im on my phone now but the quote was really significant to me. Nick and his girl (the athlete) were going by car and she rested her head on his shoulder. Something in that writing really spoke to me)

>>3971362

Check your saged and reported privilege

>>3971170
Well....It was extremely significant when it came out because it was the perfect representation of the upper class lives. It showed how care free they were, how fun it seemed, and also showed the downfall of 'everything that glitters is not gold'.
It's relevant today because the 20's was a beautiful generation and I don't know a single person, except for some commune loving hippie, who would not love to live the life of an upper class man or woman, going to parties, being 100% carefree, in a time of change, and economic boom.
Also, F.Scott is the fucking man, that's why.

>>3971362
>check your american privilege
no, I will not be sorry for being born better.
I will not be sorry that other countries failed to do anything at all, even in modern times.
I will not be sorry. I will be proud of the men and women who allowed for America to be the way it is. Go bleed your heart out somewhere else.

>>3971170
story isn't great, everything else is

>>3971202
their both gud nerd

>>3971265
>>3971282
Maria del Barrio novelisation anywhere?

>>3971397
Austrianon laughing at your "privilege". Ha Ha.

>>3971397
ugh you're so embarrassing

>>3971362
>Check your american privilege
Being American is not a privilege. It's more of a sentence, or a curse.

>>3971362
>the bourgeoisie

>>3972003
Front row seats to the oblivion.

>>3971170
>it's actually a question instead of a statement

The greatest aspect of The Great Gatsby is the prose. No word is wasted. It's balanced. Just go back and take a look at how Fitzgerald describes characters in the first two chapters. It's amazing.

I liked the characters to. They're not good people, but they're interesting people. Tom is such an asshole. I love how he's insecure enough to seek Nick's approval and get jealous at Gatsby but then he'll go on a spiel about how the minorities are taking over and how white people built civilization. That's a complicated character.

The fact that it has so much to say about the death of the American dream and the irresponsibility of the upper class and predicted the great depression is just icing on the cake.

>>3972019
And you get to take everyone with you, so you're not even lonely.