The Great Gatsby!*

“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer...writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”
“Self-interview,” New York Tribune (May 7, 1920).

        This quote to me basically is saying that F. Scott Fitzgerald writes to readers of his generation, the ones below him, and the ones that have yet to come. In my opinion The Great Gatsby indeed reached out to my generation.

        The Great Gatsby was a great book. It definitely kept my interest throughout the entire book. I loved the plot of the story. This book as a whole engaged us in as a readers and only left us out on parts to only fill us in at the end. Unlike any other stories we read this year, The Great Gatsby was filled with excitement, from affairs, love, lies, riches, parties, to murder.

        The only thing I really didn’t enjoy about The Great Gatsby was the ending. I didn’t like how Tom snitched because he didn’t like Gatsby and told Wilson that Gatsby was the owner of the yellow car that killed Myrtle. I would have also liked to see Gatsby alive at the end. I was hoping that him and Daisy would forget about Tom and do their own thing, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. I also thought that it was rude of Daisy to not call or even acknowledge the fact that Gatsby was dead for somebody that supposedly loved Gatsby. I would have also liked to see Nick and Ms. Baker together, but after all, all stories don’t end in happily ever after.