Great Gatsby final post

    The Great Gatsby is in many ways a strange book to me. It features many things that I generally find annoying in most modern entertainment, like rain symbolism and a plotline that involves multiple affairs, but I still found it enjoyable. It told its story in a way I haven’t really seen before and it kept me interested despite a plot line that is rather boring at first glance. Much of this could be because of the perspective, a passive gentleman that avoids most social contact who is not directly affected by the main story. Much of this could be the contradictory nature of many characters, like Gatsby being trustworthy yet he lies about much of his past. I haven’t seen these elements at all in most of my media consumption, and I believe that these unique elements caused me to enjoy the book much more than I would have if it was told through Gatsby’s perspective. If I saw the story through his eyes, it would lose much of the suspense and intrigue that kept me turning pages. Gatsby would lose his contradictions, as I would see through the character what was true and what wasn’t. If the book did not have these little elements, I would have probably hated it, but as it stands, it was an incredible read.