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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
I reread The Great Gatsby for about the 20th time (and third time in the last calendar year). Here’s what 11th graders have to say about it. I made them “Tweet” their reviews, hence the hashtags: “Overall all I didn’t like the book, it wasn’t very good and I feel it is very confusing to the young mind. Although that’s probably just because I’m not very smart.” “It was alright.” “I personally think that this book is an OK one, but I think some people […]
Beautiful prose, sexy twenties parties and all that jazz.
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” Right, so the Great Gatsby. I‘m pretty much on a quest to re-read all the classics that I read as a teenager and never really got. The Great Gatsby is one of those romanticized novels that most people say is about Gatsby who’s hopelessly in love with Daisy. So much in love that even though she basically dumped him by telling him “Hey-yo I’ll be marrying someone […]
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
And so my goal of rereading my AP English course load begins… Ok, so basically anyone who went to high school in America knows The Great Gatsby and it’s incredibly re-readable although I haven’t read it since before this treasure came out: 100 year old spoilers ahead… In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway is living near his cousin, Daisy, in fictional West Egg trying to make a living after graduating college and serving in WW1. While Nick has to work to earn a living most […]