EngLit

BOTOS SIMINA · Dunker Data inscrierii: 24/Noi/2008 Mesaje: 12

I liked "The Great Gatsby" because I think we are dealing with an old story in a new background. The "pain" caused within a men by the loss of the loved women and a lifetime spend for her I think is a very common subject. There are a lot of similarities with a lot of love stories so I belive that in choosing the subject, Fitzgerald lacks originality.
When it comes to the manner of displaying that subject, he is original, he does something new. He chose a common subject and placed it in his age-"the jazz age". He wrote what he saw-the decadence of the American dream, the loss if the moral sense, materialism and extreme liberty when it comes to couples.
It is a nice reading and I would recommend it but only for getting a better view of the jazz age and America after the war.
I am sure that the novel has its importance but it did not impress me enough to say that it is "the best novel" of "the roaring 1920s".

Alina Tineghe · Trimis: 04/01/2010 00:01 Titlul subiectului: American Modernism

When I read the book "The Great Gatsby" which for me it wasn't such an interesting book,I just keep remembering a short qoute that it was like an emblem for whole action,for all relations for every smile of a character or for every bad situation:
" ...love begins with a smile,grows with a kiss and ends with a tear"
Maybe is a stupidity but for all those situations...
Before I sad that "The Great Gatsby"it wasn't such an interesting book for me and this because now we are soo common with subject like this. The end of the chos of World War 1 made American society to enjoyed a high level of prosperity,where Fitzgerald,the real person-the author,just like his character Nick Carraway idolized the rich people and luxury of the age,he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality.Or the situation of the main character Jimmy Gatsby whom is young,mysterious and a millionaire,with shady business and connections had an obsessive love for Daisy,whom he had met when he was a young officer in WW 1.
I am sore that Fitzgerald had a good reson to wrote this novel because even years later after hie death were some copies still unsold. :lol:

adina erdei · Trimis: 08/01/2010 15:24 Titlul subiectului:

i enjoyed this book. i really liked it. i don`t care that it has "a common subject" or it is a common book. i just like it. gatsby is a polemic character. he has money, which make him important. but in the end, he realizes that it is not enough to have money. you cannot buy love, you cannot buy friendship...some things cannot be bought with money. yeah, he was a rich, well-known person. everybody loved gatsby. but why? because of his parties. when all came to end, nobody was interested in him anymore. even at his funeral there were none of his "real friends". i think he loved her, but she only loved his power, his money.

ana cauni · Trimis: 09/01/2010 23:27 Titlul subiectului:

oh. The Great Gatsby. what an interesting book.
like Alina, that quote also remained in my mind and i think it will for a very long time, because it reflects the reality.
even for Gatsby,was the truth.even though he had all that money and the fame,the love wasn't all for him as he wanted to.
you know, in a way it is sad, but in the other it is not.because he thought that if he had all that money and everything he could also have the woman loved.i am happy for this :-)

...maybe you will say that i am mean but i don't think so.you see, you cannot have all that you want in life, so you have to be temperate. :-D

i really liked the book when he died :lol:

that was the best part for me...at least a bit of humor...well, for me :-)

marisca vlad · Rookie Data inscrierii: 09/Ian/2010 Mesaje: 5

what do you think makes Gatsby the " great"?

marisca vlad · Rookie Data inscrierii: 09/Ian/2010 Mesaje: 5

How do you fell about Nick being a narrator? does his qualities as a character influence the narration? In what way?

Ioana Man · Trimis: 16/01/2010 18:24 Titlul subiectului:

I would like to remind you of a scene in the movie The Great Gatsby, a scene that does not appear in the book, but which is very suggestive me. When she comes to Jay,s house for the first time, Daisy, while speaking with him ,takes in her hand, and caresses a collection of little statues made of gold. She is very impressed by them. I think we could draw a parallel between this newly rich people during the Jazz Age, who have money from smuggling alcohol, and the Gold Rush in the 19th century, when so many gold diggers became rich over night, and this richness could be measured in gold.

ramona_covaciu · Trimis: 20/01/2010 12:04 Titlul subiectului:

ramona_covaciu · Trimis: 20/01/2010 12:13 Titlul subiectului:

Ioana Man · Trimis: 21/01/2010 13:38 Titlul subiectului:

The narrator, Nick Carraway, becomes a voice that is filtering sensations and impressions in an order appropriateto his growing understanding of Gatsby”s nature, presentinga landscape of complex images so that Gatsby, initially just another corrupt product of his material world, is gradually distinguished from it and finally made the victim of its massive carelesness.

Ioana Man · Trimis: 21/01/2010 15:57 Titlul subiectului:

I would like to draw a parallel with another book I”ve read and liked a lot:Theodore”s Dreiser An American Tragedy. Both The Great Gatsby and An American Tragedy are tales of the American Dream gone wrong; both turn on figures who seek to enjoy the success American society seems to promise; both characters construct a dream with women at their emblemetic centers; both these dreams lead to tragedy and death. Clyde is made a representative figure for whom life is a struggle. Ironically, his rewards come to him just too late; when the chance comes to make a wealthy marriage, he already has made a poor girl pregnant. He takes her on a photographic expedition in a boat and naturalist fate strikes. The boat rocks, the camera strikes her, she drowns. Clyde Griffiths”s dreams take him through the contradictions of American society to the electric chair, a victim of chance and system. The Great Gatsby, however, transforms its naturalist materials just as Gatsby himself magnificently transforms his own past and social reality. we know little that is true about him. Gatsby”s easy corruptions are hidden in his own glow and justified by his love for Daisy and the timeless dream he hopes to fulfill with her.

Carmen_Pop · Dunker Data inscrierii: 18/Ian/2009 Mesaje: 11

the great gatsby refflects the colapse of the perfect american dream. this ideea is better underlined in the work of Fitzgerald. Again the idealistic society collapses here being presented the idea of adultery in the rich mans world. what intrigued me was Tom”s reaction when he saw that Gatsby is in love with his wife Daisy his reaction was something like this I am allowed to cheat you but you are only mine and as corrupt and bad this thing is I have to dissaprove Tom because he is not fair. A woman is not a proprety, if you marry someone and you are bound to him or her than you should be faithfull. For me this book also represents the vicious circle of love as everyone is with the wrong person, with the person that he or she does not love and when some people find out about the other they are capable of murder in order to revenge or protect what is theirs.

Ioana Man · Trimis: 06/02/2010 12:37 Titlul subiectului:

If I have to speak about a character, I think that the most unforgetable of all is Jay Gatsby. He is looking for love, he loves a woman with all his heart, but he is not able to conquer the womwn normally. He has to impress her with his fortune. I do not think that women in upper class didn,t fall in love with men in more poor classes. If the men were intelligent, if they knew how to express their feelings , if they had courage, they could. But Jay Gatsby seems to me to be handicaped in this way: he can,t express his feelings, he can,t impress the woman with his personality, and because of that he needs to be rich. Maybe this is where Fitzgerald shows that people are not able to communicate to each other anymore, and they become alienated, alone, tragic. The other characters are the same, in this way. Daisy and her „friends„ go to parties, have fun all the time, they have a very active life from a social point of view, but in fact, all this is superficial: they only pretend to have conversations _ they are all false, all superficial, all alone and incapable of real feelings. Modernism especially concentrated on showing this feeling of men and women that they did not belong anywhere.

Simona Chira · Rookie Data inscrierii: 20/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 4

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, clipe and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."

So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light.

Simona Chira · Rookie Data inscrierii: 20/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 4

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."

So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light.

Simona Chira · Rookie Data inscrierii: 20/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 4

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."

So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light.

Simona Chira · Rookie Data inscrierii: 20/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 4

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, clipe and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."

So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light.
[quote][/quote]

Simona Chira · Rookie Data inscrierii: 20/Noi/2009 Mesaje: 4

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness." (16)

So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book - that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light.

Teacher · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Mar/2008 Mesaje: 471

Mishu Uglea · Trimis: 07/03/2010 21:37 Titlul subiectului:

hey simona , why did u replied 4 times at the same question , and the same answer :lol: