It's an interesting story with interesting characters and an extremely economical use of language for the kind of character and class portraits that it's able to make.

This thread is posted every week. Are people really expecting the book to be stellar because it's taught in high schools so much? It's taught so much because it's easy to read and short and good and American history.

>>7824991
I didn't say it was a bad book, I was just wondering why it's taught in American schools because I'm from Canada. I don't think Canada has a book like the Great Gatsby which is a shame because I like the simplicity of the story and the short length.

>>7824986
The ending was silly.

>>7824999
We actually studied this book in my highschool in Australia as well. Mainly looking at the use of symbolism in the book, some obvious like the light, or not as obvious to me originally the eyes of t.j. eckleburg. Anyway like the other anon said, it's a simple, interesting book which makes it a good teaching tool.

>>7825104
I guess when you put it like that, I guess Timothy Findlay would be the Canadian analogue to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

>>7825093
It kinda reminded me of The Count of Monte Christo where Dumas sums up the book with a dominant theme as a single sentence at the end, like a moral.

>>7824986
it's about Gatsby and a popular idea of the American dream. what it is and how it fails to make Gatsby and the other characters with money happy. it's about love and chasing the past. it's about terrible reasons to want to make your fantasies real. it's about a lot of things.

>>7825104
it's one of those books that writing teachers use to show the rules of writing so if you're going to break them at least you can break them WELL and not in some cliché way.