Book Review: The Great Gatsby

New York. One of the cities I love. A city with a history and characters. A melting pot of time and cultures. This is the place for the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

When a great story is wrapped around that place, and the time, almost post-Sherlockian Victorian Era (you will relate to this a lot if you read my reviews), it reveals not only the imagination of the author but also the societal narrative of the times.

My review is just that of a star-struck reader. So I leave it to you to pick a copy and enjoy it yourself.

The Cover:

I bought two copies of The Great Gatsby … My second classic read in a year.

The book covers vary — some bringing the love between Daisy and Gatsby to the front, and others bringing in the societal nature of New York — often portraying the houses and cars.

The Plot and the Characters:

The story is a complex and compelling piece told in the first personal narrative of Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate, trying to find his feet in the bond business in New York. He happens to pick a decadent house with an unkempt garden ( ‘the tall, uncut grass’) in West Egg, a fictional part of Long Island, jutting into the sea. His neighbor happens to be Jay Gatsby, a rich guy with a mysterious past. Initially circumspect, Nick is drawn into the boisterous and colorful parties that…