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The Great Gatsby instal10/4/2023 ![]() ![]() What makes the book sing is the first person narration, and how easy Fitzgerald makes it seem to blend internal thoughts with plotting, dialog and observation. It’s constructed as a series of slow burning time bombs that make you simultaneously want them to both go off to relieve the pressure, but not go off, so you can enjoy the way things are slowly unraveling for as long as possible. It’s irresistible as a writer to want to take it apart and see how it works. It’s a writer’s book in a way, since it’s so simple and in many way obvious, yet works so wonderfully well. There’s nothing that fancy or elaborate going on. How wrong he was.Īs a story outline, The Great Gatsby is simple. Fitzgerald died in 1940 thinking himself a failure and that his work wouldn’t be remembered. ![]() It was twenty years after its publication in 1925 that it first became a classic. ![]() Many people are surprised to learn the book was headed for obscurity until it was chosen as a free book for soldiers during WWII. It’s a reference book for me, in that I find I experience the book differently each time I read it. I’ve read the Great Gatsby more than a dozen times. ![]()
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