Let's start over, old sport... Call me a sentimental goose but I love The Great Gatsby. This is a classic that contains so many beautiful passages that simply deserves a second chance from certain readers. I see now that this is a wonderful story that captures and holds so many different facets of topics and subjects set to the brilliance of the early 1920's. Like so many others, I was exposed at an early age to this work and needless to say I did not have a pleasant literary or learning experience with this book and it has just left an unpleasant taste for me. Perhaps this has happened to you and you can name a title that you were forced into endlessly dissecting or for whatever reasons and it all had unintentional results of creating rancor directed at a particular book. Perhaps this is that book, may I be the first to say maybe it's time to let the past go and give The Great Gatsby a second look. If you are like me you love concept of the story or setting and know the symbolism by heart and if nothing else may just read it for the history, expressive passages and dimensional characterizations. However wonderful the reading experience, this reader did notice some unanswered questions that lingered on the last pages that were hard to forget or ignore and a few confusing poetic metaphorical passages that left a sense of reading two incomplete books in one. I will be honest, I did feel that old frustration bubbling in the beginning but as soon as the descriptive section about the narrator's initial encounter with Mr. Jay Gatsby and his unforgettable smile that frustration fell away and the book seemed to say to this reader: "let's start over, old sport" and after that I just lost myself in the experience and rediscovered another classic. -rediscovered classic, purchased and read on kindle -EGP/July 2014 Comments are closed.
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