![]() Its manner of telling is disjointed, albeit by the literary design of the author, and accompanied by some seemingly casual moralizing by an omnipresent narrator sounding suspiciously like the author and sort of occupying himself at other times by taking an interest in a woman golfer who cheats, the only other substantial character in the novel if we except a denizen of the underworld, the mistress’s dog and friends, Gatsby’s father, a bunch of assorted party goers, and one mourner.įrom this perspective, the adulation The Great Gatsby has received may seem totally out of proportion. Its plot does little more than tell us who the protagonist is and get him killed off in the end by the down-and-out husband of the blowsy mistress of the rich brute who has married the girl whom the hero wants but can’t have. In subject, it is about an American bootlegger who nourishes an adolescent dream about a golden girl he can’t have. ![]() In length, the book barely qualifies as a full-sized novel. ![]() The Great Gatsby and the Great American Novel
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