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The Great Gatsby
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A true critique of rootless money. Also a book too in love with the parties it condemns.
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The review
Fitzgerald knew that the moneyed East was a betrayal of whatever the Middle West had been for. Nick's last loyalty is to the region he came from, not to Gatsby. That loyalty is why the book can sit on this shelf. It does not teach a boy how to live. It teaches him how a certain shine lies.
Read it late in school, not early, and do not let the green light become a motivational quote. The light is the lie.
Journal
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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Crossing
50 instead of 33
The Crossing is still a novel book, and it scores 50 instead of 33. What you gain is courage: He keeps a promise to an animal at a cost no one will thank him for.
The eight
- 4Industry
Almost nobody works on the page. The valley of ashes is the work, kept at the edge.
- 2Household
Marriage is a wreck and a scheme. No one is building a house.
- 1Piety
No faith. The billboard is the joke where God would be.
- 3Courage
Gatsby's persistence is real and spent on a fantasy.
- 3Republic
East Egg is a class, not a civic body. It eats a woman and goes on.
- 2Temperance
The parties are the famous part. The judgment comes too late to govern the reader.
- 8Truth
The fraud is seen clearly, including the narrator's attraction to it.
- 3Stewardship
Nothing is handed on but a narration and a funeral almost nobody attends.
Where to read
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