May 8, 2025
‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the most complex yet iconic classics ever, and is appreciated for its theme and its role in showing people the reality of the American Dream. And here is why 100 years on, the book is still a Classic.
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‘The Great Gatsby’ has 3 main themes, and those three are every human’s everyday chase. The book is about love, wealth, and dreams, and it remains ever relevant because the chase for these 3 has still not ended.
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One of the main reasons ‘The Great Gatsby’ is read even today is because of how it connects with the idea of the American Dream. People believe that anyone can succeed through hard work, but sometimes those dreams are flawed, hollow, or even dangerous.
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Fitzgerald’s language, in the book, is both poetic and elegant. The stories and narrations, although overlapping here and there, were not overly complex to understand and follow. Plus, certain lines from the book are still quoted today.
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The main character, Jay Gatsby, is a strong and influential man who is also full of secrets and mysteries. His past, his obsession with Daisy, his love for all things elegant and classy, and of course, the parties he threw just for adoration and ‘love’.
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‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in the 1920s, the Jazz Age that was filled with money, glamour, and over-the-top parties. But the book showed that beneath the glitter and extravagance was emptiness, shallow behaviours, and a sad society.
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Unlike many other classics that span hundreds of pages, sometimes even thousands, ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a short novel, no more than 200 pages. And while it is a little complex to read, the number of pages makes it look less intimidating.
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The book also showed people a glimpse of the ‘Roaring twenties’, an age of glamour, big dreams, and changing morals, and it did not just paint the positive picture, but also showed the negatives.
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‘The Great Gatsby’ is not just a glamorous story that talked about love, riches, and expensive partying, it was also a tragedy that ends with Gatsby’s dream. Gatsby, in the end, dies alone, and the story leaves behind a bit of sadness and the feeling of lost hope.
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