Who is reading the Great Gatsby?
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I read it twice in Highschool (I changed highschools and one was behind academically so it was taught a year behind the other school)
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Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.\n\nNick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening for dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, an erstwhile classmate of Nick’s at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. \n\nNick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose.\n\nAs the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair.\n\nAfter a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal—his fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him.\n\nWhen Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. The next day, Tom tells Myrtle’s husband, George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.\n\n
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I also want to know who has read that book
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The green light at the end of the dock in the beginning of the book represents a huge idea--platonic conception. Gatsby has a "dream" of himself--a "platonic conception"--and part of that own "ideal" persona is Daisy, his "true" love. \n\nDaisy represents "old money". She represents the higher upper class, a part of society that Gatsby has always wanted to be a part of. Gatsby represents "new money". There is a division between where Daisy lives and where Gatsby lives that illustrates this idea of "new money" and "old money". You might also want to look into the time where that old geezer was in Gatsby's library exclaiming that the books in the library were "real", since most "new money" people probably won't have a real collection of old novels, but a cover that looks like it. \n\nAlso look at Gatsby's car... It shows a lot about Gatsby's character, and how he is trying so very hard to fit into the old money ways. \n\nAt the beginning or the end of the book, you'll see the "two eyes" in the distance that were once an old board or something... that is commonly interpreted as the eyes of God.
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Since the book just was released today (2/13), I don't think the list will be readily floating around online (Then nobody would have to buy it).  I would say to go check it out at Borders or Barnes & Noble.\n\nI hope to buy it within a week or so, and will let you know if anyone from GA is in there.
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To Kill a Mocking Bird (by Harper Lee) is written as from the perspective of an eight-year old girl - Scout.  \n\nAt this stage in the book, a new teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, has already told Scout that her father should stop teaching her to read (although Scout is self-taught).  Miss Caroline and Scout were obviously on a collision course of sorts.\n\nAfter asking everyone who is having lunch at school to place their lunch at the front, Miss Caroline realises that Walter Cunningham has not brought his forward.  She pretty much forces him to say he had forgotten it, and then proceeds to offer him a quarter in order for him to buy his lunch - with the proviso that he returns the quarter the following day.  The Cunninghams are dirt poor farm people, and Walter never brings lunch to school, and certainly could never repay cash to Miss Caroline, so she has to keep prompting him to come and get the quarter.  He won't budge.  Everyone else is local and knows the circumstances of Walter's family ... and uneasily they say:\n\n"Go on and tell her, Scout".\n\n"I turned round and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.  Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already, and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding."\n\n++++++++++\n\nI hope the above is of help.
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I love the novel. The glowing eyes, the 'is it a cat or Erik' mystery, the house on the lake, the torture chamber, the rat catcher, all of it.\n\nIt's a great novel, especially when begun with Gaston Leroux's sworn statement that the whole thing is true.
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i haven't read it, but if you have an e-file, would you mind sending it to me via email?\n\ncaeszarre@yahoo.com\n\ni've read "Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel" and "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature"\n\nthanks.
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I'm glad you asked that, not because I have the answer but because me and my daughter, well . . . me anyways, are reading Moby Dick, and I never remembered it being so detailed on Cetology or in the beginning of the novel before he meets Queequeg.   Maybe I cheated back in my highschool or junior high days and got the Cliff Notes, but I coulda swore I read the book.  Oh well, that's been many decades ago.  I just got past the part where Captain Ahab kicked Stubb (First Mate isn't he??) and Stubb had the dream where someone asks him why is it so bad to be kicked by Ahab since his leg is made of ivory,etc..  My daughter, who lives with her mother about 65 miles southeast of me, probably hasn't read one word of it since she's a lot like her mother, who didn't like to read.  I read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to her when she was pregnant with either our son or daughter, I can't remember which.  She liked to be read to but wouldn't do it herself, so, I doubt my daughter has read any of "Moby Dick" since she hasn't said anything about it.  Oh well, I'm rambling on.  Sorry.  Maybe I'll continue the book, but the Cetology part is way too detailed and "informational" for me.  I want more "action", and am becoming too addicted to the brainless tv, and too lazy to read fine novels.  I hope you finish the book.  It's a wonderful piece of literature.  God Bless you.
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Here's one:\nhttp://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg4/timelin1.htm\n\nAnd:\nhttp://users.adelphia.net/~hallamd/gatsbywebpage/timeline.html
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Here is what Amazon has to say about the book.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440227410/qid=1138663474/\n\n"Now that he's back in Aspen, Colorado, Will Lansa feels like an outsider after spending the summer with his father on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. He breaks up with his girlfriend Myra, and then becomes the last person known to have seen her alive. When a missing knife is discovered with blood on the blade and traces of a drug on the handle, Will is suspected of committing the murder. His only allies are a computer hacker and a Hopi spirit who visits Will in his dreams. Haunted by visions of Myra's death, Will won't rest until he proves his innocence and finds Myra's murderer."
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I met the writer of this book just weeks before his death. The book is 100% true.griping !!!!! I had to order it at Barnes + Noble\nTook one week. please get this book,You will not be able to put it down.Title\nNONE CAME HOME
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I'm going to sit back with my books and read. For school I'm planning on rereading House of the Scorpion and read the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. If the new Eragon book comes out, I'll read that too. Oh, I'm also going to get Angels and Demons. And I'll get whatever else I can get my hands on. How about you?
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that would DEFINATLY  be Robert Fitzgerald, hes the best i think. i loved loved both the iliad and the odyssey by him, they're not like college this and this happened at all, almost fiction BUT ITS NOT. translations of homer's and hes awsome too. id really reccomend them. FITZGERALD ROCKS MY SOCKS!
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Hey! I'm doing that book in school too! \n\nFirst note the difference between the people in East Egg and the people in West Egg. The people of East Egg are the ones that were born rich (aristocrats) and the ones in West Egg are the people of new money, like Gatsby and Nick himself. Daisy and Tom are of East Egg. Being of old money they are used to being rich and live elegantly and have a good, well-known family background so they don't have to show it off. They are therefor referred to as members of "... a rather distinguished secret society." But Gatsby, being new to wealth, shows it off with lots of parties. He lacks the knowledge built up over generations, of how to speak correctly, how to dress with taste and how not to show off his immense wealth. Gatsby can never be anything more than lower class in manners, speech and behaviour, because people with 'old money' will not give away the secrets of their social code. Note that Gatsby holds his parties to attract Daisy. Funny, isn't it??!! Hope this helps!
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i havent read it, but ive heard that it is really good. im going to either check it out from the library or buy it soon, and read it.
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hey! i'm with you. i saw the film last night and thoroughly anjoyed it - and Tom Hanks was great.\ni haven't read the book yet, i can't be disappointed..