Review: 'The Great Gatsby'

(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

OK, what's going on here? The Great Gatsby is being discussed Wednesday at the Lyceum. So I've read it. Jim Surface and Brenda Colazzi, two of my favorite people, will be there.

Review: 'The Great Gatsby': "In the closing pages of The Great Gatsby, Nick considers Gatsby in a wider context. Nick links Gatsby with the class of people with whom he has become so inextricably associated. They are the society persons so prominent during the 1920's and 1930's. Like his novel The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald attacks the shallow social climbing and emotional manipulation--which only causes pain. With a decadent cynicism, the party-goers in The Great Gatsby cannot see anything beyond their own enjoyment. Gatsby's love is frustrated by the social situation and his death symbolizes the dangers of his chosen path."