Should The Great Gatsby Still Be Read In Schools Today?

Do you think The Great Gatsby should still be read in schools today? Well, I do, and in this essay, I'll be explaining why I believe this. The Great Gatsby explores universal themes so there are many different situations in this novel. Also, it shows how money rules the world and what people would do for wealth. Lastly, it shows Gatsby's persona and how he isn't the person he seems to be. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald seeks universal themes, greedy characters, and persona is why this book has remained important all these years.
In The Great Gatsby, there are many different themes. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and then retreated into their money and let other people clean up the mess they had made,”

“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction to Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” Although Gatsby represents everything that Nick hates and sees him as low-class, he exempts him from it because Gatsby worked for his money. “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight” the way they talk about the poor in this novel should be recognized because people aren't bad just because they don't have

But Gatsby's persona isn't really whom he seems to be. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” Tom refers to him as “Mr. Nobody from Nowhere” because he knows Gatsby's past when he was lower-class and broke. “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away,” says Nick after his first time meeting Gatsby. What makes Gatsby's persona important? His persona in this book is important because it shows how everyone isn't how they look and there sometimes is a different person behind the