Notes on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I took a couple days to write this review after finishing The Great Gatsby, because I felt no emotional response to it. It was not exciting, thrilling, sad, infuriating, beautifully-written, surprising, interesting. It was neither good nor bad.

In fact, I’ve tried reading this book probably once a year since I was in high school always failing to read past the first ten pages due to boredom. That feeling didn’t change ten pages in this time around either, or even 150 pages in.

In the case of The Great Gatsby, I suggest watching the movie.

The Bechdel Test was just barely passed.

Nevertheless, here’s a series of quotes that I actually did find notable and would potentially even caption my Instas with:

“‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“‘And i like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.’”

“--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”