The Great Gatsby // F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is arguably one of the best books I have ever read. It’s beautifully composed and anyone who knows of it can likely quote the final line.
Gatsby is simply trying to achieve his American dream, however Fitzgerald shows that it is an impossible fantasy – even for this enigmatic character. Fitzgerald uses the novel to convey his disgust for the society that he lived in, which mirrors how I often feel about modern-day society. It made me think twice about an ever-growing gap between the classes that, before The Great Gatsby, I remained ignorant to. I was also enlightened about the destructive side of love. Before reading about Gatsby and Daisy’s flawed love affair I was a hopeless romantic, and to an extent I still am, however now I’m less blind to a darker side of love I hadn’t explored through literature before.