The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unpopular opinion: I didn't like it. I tried reading it paperback. I tried again on e-book. I tried again on audiobook and still found myself phasing out. It's something about the writing style I suppose, but I finally drudged my way through it... only because I know it's an American classic that I should have read during my high school years.

The Great Gatsby is a critique of American society through the eyes of a man named Nick Carraway. Nick is a midwestern man who lays claim to sensible and down to earth moral values, a Yale education, and is a bond trader in NYC. He lives in Long Island in a part called West Egg, which is an area defined by it's new wealth as compared to East Egg, which has old wealth and old virtues. Nick lives next to a mysterious rich man named Gatsby who secretly loves his cousin that he barely knows, Daisy, who is married to his old peer at Yale, Tom Buchanan, who is boisterous and of old wealth and whose infidelity is fairly open. Mostly, the book is a critique on the American ideal and the moral gray area of high society, as well as on Nick's own perspective. Each character in the book is in his/her own way a fool. In terms of themes, I found the story relatable to some of the obnoxious things that are done/said in Penn.

I'll take the L on this novel though.