Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Title: The Great Gatsby Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Date Published: 04/10/2025
Read Dates: 10/01/2026- 10/03/2026
Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
This is the first of two library book club picks for October. One of our librarians received a grant for this book, so it is being discussed throughout the library system
The Great Gatsby is a single POV modernist classic. Narrated by Nick Carraway, it tells of the events of one summer in New York, involving his charismatic and enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby and his strained friendship with his cousin Daisy, married to his college friend Tom, and their social circle. Nick discovers how all their lives are entwined and finds himself often in the middle, trying to find the best in people but becoming disillusioned by a life of glitz and glamour with very little happiness or substance underneath.
This was certainly an interesting book and I can see both why it is considered a classic and why it is so often assigned in schools. The reader is often left feeling like they are missing the full picture, which seems intentional since the narrator chosen for the story is someone on the outside looking in, who only knows the bits and pieces people choose to reveal to him, and even then he questions the truth behind what he is told. The trio of main characters, Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby, would struggle to manage any redeeming qualities between them all, and Nick's esteem, admiration, and fondness for all three deteriorates throughout the novel along with mine. I'm definitely glad I had a chance to finally read this one, even if modernist novels are so bleak and depressing it makes me thankful that they're also usually short!
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