After reading The Great Gatsby, I realized that it doesn’t live up to what people say about it. For a book that is said to be a classic and one of many people's favorites, I was not impressed. I feel like the Great Gatsby is the single most confusing book I have ever read. I find the Fitzgeralds over use of symbolism in the book makes characters and the plot very confusing and makes nothing seem to connect. The Great Gatsby was one of the books where I said “Thank God it's over” when I was done reading it. The book involves a bunch of rich people who are so full of themselves that it makes me despise them. They think that because they have so much money that everyone will like them and want to be friends with them. Characters like that are characters I hate because nothing is worse than reading about someone who only ever cares about themselves. One character in particular that I despise the most is Myrtle. I don’t understand who in the right mind would just think the car would stop if you ran in the middle of the road. You can’t always expect other people to do something. If she was smart enough she wouldn’t have run into the road and maybe she would be alive to …show more content…
Fitzgerald uses so much symbolism in the plot to try and get us to understand things better, but honestly it made it harder for me to understand what he was trying to get across. One thing that Fitzgerald used to symbolize was the green light. The green light was supposed to symbolize his longing for daisy. And then after he met up with her, it was just like any other light. I was confused about this because I didn't realize that the green light was at the end of Daisy's dock. This was because Fitzgerald over-complicated and over-described the settings to a point where I couldn't remember all the details of the setting, leaving me to be confused and not understand the setting, plot, and symbolism in the