The Great Gatsby -

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Charles Scribner's Sons

1979

182 páginas

6h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780684163253

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

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Sabe aquele livro que você sente pena de acabar? Esse foi um deles. Gatsby me envolveu desde suas primeiras páginas trazendo sensações e emoções únicas. Sendo um clássico da literatura, é um romance/drama trágico então se você for ler não espere um romance feliz.

A história é narrada pelo seu vizinho e amigo Nick, então teve umas partes que eu achei meio confusas, mas foi um livro interessante que retratou bem e com detalhes a década de 20. Estou terminando esse livro meio vazia e triste porque o Gatsby fez isso tudo pra ter o final que teve, o Nick acabou solitário e o Tom/Daisy só se importavam com dinheiro e a alta sociedade sem estar nem aí para quem iriam machucar no caminho.

No final foi tudo para ela e ela o abandonou. Ele se sacrificou por ela, e ela nem ligou para o que aconteceu.

"Não há fogo ou frescor suficientes para competir com o que um homem é capaz de armazenar nos espectros de seu coração."