![]() The movie is "faithful" to the novel with a vengeance - to what happens in the novel, that is, and not to the feel, mood, and spirit of it. It would take about the same time to read Fitzgerald's novel as to view this movie - and that's what I'd recommend. I wonder what Fitzgerald, whose prose was so graceful, so elegantly controlled, would have made of it: of the willingness to spend so much time and energy on exterior effect while never penetrating to the souls of the characters. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.The Great Gatsby is a superficially beautiful hunk of a movie with nothing much in common with the spirit of F. It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. scott (francis scott), 1896-1940,įiction, romance, historical, 20th century,Īmerican fiction (collections), 20th century,Īmerican literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Young adult fiction, social themes, class differences,įitzgerald, f. Young adult fiction, comics & graphic novels, classic adaptation, American fiction (fictional works by one author),
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