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Jacqueline 05:21 am UTC 06/08/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Lurkers? Please say hello - pidunk 02:01 am UTC 06/08/07 |
| Gatsby himself makes the book. He picked out a dream (Daisy) and went for it...and she cost him everything in the end...least of all, his life. He was dead before the bullet. Killed by reality. Every character in that book holds some deep true about humans and our nature. Plus, Fitzgerald writes like a poet. He writes like Jim. xxx JD "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." "Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men." "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion…" > > > >The Great Gatsby is my favorite > > all-time book. > > You are the second person I've encountered with this > feeling about the book. I had the nightmarish experience > of seeing the movie first, the one with Sam Waterston. I > could tell you that someone with that taste in their mouth > can't see the forest for the trees in the book after that > (I did try once). I wonder if you could please tell me, > what is there in the book, of the book, that makes it a > stand-out for you? > > | |
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