I haven't read the book but this story is considered to be one of the deepest and I don't seem to find where does the moral of the story lie exactly.
Paul Avery: Someone should write a *beep* book, that's for sure.
A vapid story about the elite that at some point in time may have resonated but not anymore.
shareIt could have been improved by Gatsby blowing up Tom's mansion, or Tom blowing up Gatsby's, or both. Anything to interest the Dumbest Generation. They don't read books anyway so they'd never know.
shareand what is the dumbest generation?
shareI am surprised to find out they still sell these things called "books," but if interested in the subject you could try:
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It's about how far people would go for love and the danger and destruction that comes along with that obsession. Read it, it is one of the best books you'll ever read (this is coming from someone who hates classics).
shareIt's about how people in love delude themselves, I don't just mean the love of one man for one woman, there's also the love of wealth and glamour.
I never loved the book, perhaps because I'm not the sort of person who is wowed by that sort of thing.
“Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!
True!
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Try reading the book. Its only about 90 pages or so.
shareTo anybody who don't seem to understand my post:
I am not asking you whether or not I should read the book. If I was interested in this story I would most definetly read the book instead of posting my question here. But I am not.
I am asking what YOU (people who DO get the point/find it to be a deep story) can tell me about it. I am honestly curious about other people's opinion and see what they understand / find special about this story.
Paul Avery: Someone should write a *beep* book, that's for sure.
It's about the careless and thoughtless people. It's about the type of people who go through life making messes everywhere they go and taking no responsibility for any of it, and leaving those messes for someone else to clean up while they retreat into whatever hollow nonsense keeps them going.
shareI think maniubo got as close as anyone. The reason people keep bringing up the book is that it's a classic and no movie could do the book justice. I never read it (I got assigned Moby Dick - talk about long and boring).
Gatsby loved Daisy and thought that if he accumulated all of those things she would be with him. He was obsessed. Near the end, it's very quick, they put pieces of a letter into the air (as they did at other times) and it was from Daisy saying something about them being penniless. I believe that is part of a letter she wrote him while he was in the armed forces. She wanted stuff he couldn't give her back then. As Gatsby's best friend said, everything Gatsby built and owned was for her. He took the fall (literally) when she drove and killed the woman. She wasn't going to admit it was her and he'd never let her admit it. Her husband hated Gatsby and made sure the husband(of his mistress)would go after Gatsby. Daisy's husband is the reason the woman ran into the middle of the street in the 1st place. Jerk.
As far as I can see Daisy's a coward. She won't make the break from her husband, even though in a very early scene she talks about her husband getting a phone call from a mistress. Gatsby believed she never loved her husband but she says that at some time she did. Gatsby is in many situations in which he could see her for what she is but he's too much in love. He's sure she'll be with him at his big mansion that he bought for her.
That was all pretty much on the mark.
Everyone in this story is pretty selfish and careless with others, even Gatsby although he has a more noble reason for it and is generous in his single-mindedness. The thing that makes Gatsby scummy in my opinion isn't so much that he wants to take Daisy away from her husband, because we know what kind of a man Tom is and he's not a very sympathetic character, but rather because of Daisy's child. I highly doubt that Jay Gatsby would want to bring Daisy's child along with them, seeing as how he wanted her to swear off Tom completely, and so I think we can assume that he'd want her to abandon her child as well, which is pretty rotten. At the very least I think we can say that he didn't give the child any thought whatsoever.
Mind you perhaps the child would have been better off without Daisy anyway, she hardly cared for it.
The point of the story?
It is impossible to recapture or relive the past.
Not with money. Not with power. Not with influence.
It is impossible to recapture or relive the past.
True dat. I'm never going to get back the 2 hours I spent watching the film no matter how much I want it.
shareImpossible to recapture or relive the past?
Of course you can, Old Sport!