Including F. Scott Fitzgerald in Schools Francis Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, is one of the best-known American literatures and has been taught in high schools all around the US and should continue to be read in high schools. The Great Gatsby tells a tragic story about a man named Gatsby, with only the desire for the love he lost, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s chase for Daisy leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his lost love, and eventually to his death (Fitzgerald). With the exciting turn of events, the writer makes this easily a book you don’t want to put down. Fitzgerald's work uses many real-life situations, figurative languages, and shows the role of wealth in this world; this is one great example of why The Great Gatsby should still be considered in the high school curriculum. …show more content…
The novel shows how the rich can often shrink their responsibilities, and do unethical things in the interest of self-preservation. Some literary devices used in The Great Gatsby are metaphors, similes, and imagery. Fitzgerald also uses irony to demonstrate how false the illusion of Gatsby's social life is when in reality he was close to few people. The novel allows students to, “evaluate author's perspectives and explain how those perspectives contribute to the meanings of text” (Oklahoma Academic Standards 11.3.R.2). Meaning that it would not only help students with literary devices but help students understand and see the issues in modern-day