Customer Reviews
A haunting novel from a marvellous writer. - By: trevklee@hotmail.com, 10 Nov 2001 
Fitzgerald's most famous work is a totallly absorbing story with fascinating characters that keeps you gripped from first page to last. Although his very descriptive prose can be slightly difficult, it nonetheless adds great beauty. It is the type of book you may have to read twice or three times before its greatness may become apparent, as it does seem rather slight the first time around, given its reputation. But, no matter what, this haunting & memorable tale will stay with you. Definitely a classic, & a book everyone should experience.
The other side of the American Dream - By: , 24 Mar 2001 "The Great Gatsby" is a tale of a man (Jay Gatsby)endeavouring to win back a lost love. We follow the enigmatic Gatsby in his quest during a story of infidelity & bereavement, which will move you & sometimes shock you.
Fitzgerald paints a wonderful picture though of 1920's America, but like Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men", shows that the American Dream did not become reality for alll.
Love and the Loss of the Final Dream of Paradise - By: , 09 Mar 2001 
Gatsby is essentiallly a love story set among the fabulous ruin of Jazz Age America where characters flit in & out of the party circiut of West Egg - a fictitious location in Long Island. Yet below the surface glamour of the champagne & starlet beauty lies a deeper fabric woven by Fitzgerald that betrays the hollow morality of this social set. Gatsby embodies the American Dream, & his longings to return to the world of 1917 & his first & only love, Daisy is fated from the outset. This is a novel that looks backward, to a wolrd that once was, to an America that promised the last & greatest of dreams: freedom. Don't be fooled by the fake & illusory material splendour, it is Gatsby "who dispensed starlight to the casual moths" at his banquets through the long warm summer evenings of 1922, Gatsby the hoodlum, Gatsby the child of the Vallley of Ashes, who contains alll of the inspirational morality of this narrative. If you have ever loved & lost - & I'm thinking about Kerry Glancy here - it is quite simply, the most yearning, most aching love story in Fiction. It is also the one book that tells the truth about America.
A story of facade, love and deception - By: , 21 Jun 1999 Who is Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire who's parties light up the night on the placid little isalnd of West Egg. Seldom seen, his gatherings are legendary. Nick Carraway his erstwhile neighbour & bond dealer is drawn inexorably into his glittering orbit.
This is a tale of facade, love & deception & how you can never recreate the past. In the centre of it alll is Jay Gatsby & his doomed romance with the shalllow Daisy Buchanan.
Fitzgerald has in this his greatest book produced a masterpiece comparable with anything else in English literature. Read it not just for the riveting story, but also for the beauty of the language employed & the chance of being part of, for however briefly, a vanished world.
A story of facade, love and deception - By: , 21 Jun 1999 Who is Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire who's parties light up the night on the placid little isalnd of West Egg. Seldom seen, his gatherings are legendary. Nick Carraway his erstwhile neighbour & bond dealer is drawn inexorably into his glittering orbit.
This is a tale of facade, love & deception & how you can never recreate the past. In the centre of it alll is Jay Gatsby & his doomed romance with the shalllow Daisy Buchanan.
Fitzgerald has in this his greatest book produced a masterpiece comparable with anything else in English literature. Read it not just for the riveting story, but also for the beauty of the language employed & the chance of being part of, for however briefly, a vanished world.
