By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:35:01 +0000

It might help to know that the book’s original title was something like “Under the Red White and Blue” or “Under the Stars and Stripes” or some similar thing. The book is an allegory about America – about the conflict between ambitious progress and clinging to past desires or illusions. Gatsby is ambitious but all for the sake of an old and dead ideal – Daisy – who is part of a tired and decadent world. Ultimately Gatsby’s wealth is of no use to him because he has lost his soul to his misguided ambition to recover the past. It is summed up so perfectly in the closing line – one of the best in all of literature, I think.

By: sterndal

sterndal — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:48:54 +0000

i tried to read shakespeare last week (romeo and juliet, a midsummer night’s dream, hamlet), but those types of reading materials are really not for me. nakakatamad basahin

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