Great Gatsby Response

24th July, 2017

Dear Mr Fitzgerald,

I have recently had the pleasure of reading possibly the most fantastic and intricate book of all time, The Great Gatsby. Usually I'm more into books with countless thrills and action scenes, however, I very much surprised myself by how enjoyable I found reading your masterpiece. I was wondering which book of yours I should read next after loving this one so much.

The cover of the book shows actors from the highly esteemed movie that your novel has been based upon your novel. It has some big names in its cast, most prominent, Leonardo Di Caprio. I am yet to find the time to watch the film, although I am intrigued to see how similar it is to your book. The book cover says it was created by "The director

We are given a thorough overview of his background and his values in the first pages of the book, and throughout it we see demonstration of this. Because he reserves his judgment we are able to look at the events throughout the course of the book in a usually reasonable manner. Despite this, it is interesting to see how at times, Nick gives a completely objective view, relaying events as he sees them, where at others he gives his own interpretation when it's required. Despite being reasonable, his views throughout the book on Gatsby are often ambivalent and contradictory showing different views people take on the new rise of investors as well as different sides of Gatsby. My favourite example of this being when Nick says "Jay! They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. I was always glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid him." Nick is probably my favourite character for he is mildly curious and has insight of the world and people around him. He also has few negative traits which makes him very easy for me and other readers to like. His ongoing romance with Jordan also reveals his past relations and helps explore Jordan's rather cynical character as well as

We are studying the Great War in history at the moment and I have heard that America became a superpower after it. This book has certainly helped me to understand why. As the Europeans struggled to recover their losses, the Americans flourished in this time period where there was a major swing in majority of wealth from the aristocracy to new investors and businessmen. The 1920's saw a booming stock market which allowed an averagely wealthy person to make millions in a day should they play their cards intelligently. This is a major theme throughout the book and was along Daisy's love, was one of the main conflicts between Gatsby and Tom, Tom being the sort of character who was outraged that "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white." - clearly not a very progressive mindset. I used my background knowledge of the time from what I'd learned in history to work out that Gatsby had made his wealth by boot-legging alcohol during the prohibition that existed at this time and realised that his charming manner gave him connections to people high up in the