> 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."
Yeah, I've already been "beaten" with that whip :)
>
> "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."
As in Eagles' "Desperado": "You're losing all your highs and lows, ain't it funny how the feeling goes away"
>
> "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…"
>
Like the combination of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields" and "Glass Onion": "Where nothing is real" "Looking through a glass onion".
I see your point, not just in the ways it can hold in the popular culture but in the poetic depth indeed.
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> >
> >
> > >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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