Ok. So I started reading the novel and couldn't figure out how in the world this book got it's title. All we kept reading was stuff about some guy named Nick. Well it turns out that Nick is very important.
After reading the first 5 chapters I understand the basic concept of the book. Nick is telling the story of his distant cousin, Daisy, and his neighbor, Gatsby. I love the fact that this book is falling over the Valentine season (good job on this one Dr. Jerz). It's romantic everything that Gatsby does for Daisy. They fell in love years before and he has never fallen out of love with her, even though she is married.
I think that it's cute how he is nervous to see her. It's a classic love story. Boy meets girl, they fall in love. Have this fantastic romance, but girl's parents get in the way. Boy and girl separate due to girl's parents and don't see each other for years and yet the couple never finds true happiness. Then, by chance or by something that happens due to boy or girl's doing, they meet again. They fall madly in love and all is well with the world and boy and girl live happily ever after.
I am excited to continue reading this story although at first it was very difficult for me to get into. Then again...I do wear my heart on my sleeve.
Posted by Tiffany Brattina at February 9, 2005 12:02 AMHave you seen the movie with Sam Waterson and Robert Redford? I think you'd like it if your into the "romantic" side of the Great Gatsby. I'm not convinced that they were ever really deeply in love...Nick hears the story via Miss Baker, which is probably an overexageration of what actually happened.
Posted by: James Stutzman at February 9, 2005 3:18 PMYa know. You are the fourth person that has told me to watch the movie. I think that I might just have to now. Of course I'll wait until after we have a test. I have a terrible habit of mixing up the issues.
Has any one else seen the movie? What do you think of it?
Posted by: Tiffany at February 9, 2005 3:52 PMTiff-
Have seen the movie multipule times. Definatly differs from the book, so finish the book, have the test, then get a couple of girlfriends together, popcorn, chocolate, chips... (you know the essentials) and have FUN watching it!
I think having Nick as a narrator is essential to the story's progression. The first few chapters have to set the scene for Gatsby to enter--he is the character you anticipate because of the title, but it's not necessary that we actually meet and talk with Gatsby until the point Fitzgerlad introduces him--and isn't it like all those well-to-do people to make a grand entrance anyway? (Hence fashionably late?)
Posted by: Karissa at February 10, 2005 4:55 PM