Something that makes books great and remembered is the ability for them to be multi-dimensional. Books that can utilize their nature of being read multiple times with a different theme in your head are the books that are kept around and analyzed deeper with much more detail. These books also have the tendency to stand the test of time and amuse all readers reading the book. A prolific example of this is The Great Gatsby as it has remained a staple in the education system for decades even though it was written in 1924 as opposed to other books deeply ingrained in the system which were written in 1953 and 1960: Lord of The Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird. The reason that The Great Gatsby has remained a staple is because of all the perspectives you can view it such as queer, feminist, African American, and psychoanalytical perspectives. A perspective that intrigued me the most was the feminist viewpoint. While I was reading The Great Gatsby, I realized that all of the women in this book are not likable for the reader and have major flaws that cause this. Some other examples of this viewpoint are that men want to dominate over women economically, women are inhumane, and women can only succeed by cheating in predominantly male-dominated fields. To add to this stance, we are also reading the book with the biased perspective of Nick, an emulation of Scott Fitzgerald, who can be assumed to be sexist with the way The Great Gatsby is written. With all of this happening in the book, it is reasonable to conclude that patriarchy is the source of female oppression throughout the book.
In The Great Gatsby, Nick has a peculiar way of describing Gatsby by making his description of him somewhat ambiguous. I feel that this is foreshadowing later into the book in some ways because of how little we know about Gatsby. The ambiguous description of Gatsby through Nick's eyes was, "[he] represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." After reading this, I became more interested in Gatsby as throughout the reading, some of what Gatsby says and does is in contradiction to where he lives and what he does. After our discussion in class about him living in the West Egg, this can imply that Gatsby did not inherit his wealth from his family because the city that represents old money, East Egg, is the place that he should be tied to if that is the case. With the lie that he brought up, it can also be assumed that there are other lies that are in place to keep his character mysterious. Because of the reason the Gatsby wants to hide how he obtained his we...
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