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Title: Interesting
Review: As I type, I'm beating against my deadline for a journal of responses to The Great Gatsby, which I finished about two weeks ago, but still cannot decipher enough. Fitzgerald writes in the most crystalline prose, as somebody said, and if one is looking for something mesmerizingly well-written, this novel should be approached. However, I give it only four stars because eventhough I can relate to Nick Carraway's perception of Gatsby, and his opinion of him (his dream is very noble, and he lives in a fantasy world, never letting the outside world crush this), I'm still perturbed and annoyed by the rest of the characters. I will have to read it in another time, so as not to feel under AP pressure as I try to interpret/analyze it. Finally, I believe the story is moving once one remembers all those disgustingly superficial and supercilious people do have souls.When I started this book , the Jazz Age fascinated me, but now it kind of disgusts me.
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