The Great Gatsby

After ready The Great Gatsby, I can honestly say it's one of my favorite books. I loved the mysterious elemant of the book and of course the 'love' part. Frankly, thought, this was sort of a depressing book from the love loss to the deaths.
One of the things that hit me hardest while reading this book was when Tom and his secret lover, Myrtle, are at the apartment that Tom uses for the affair and Myrtle is giving Tom a hard time about his wife, which ends in Tom breaking Myrtle's nose. For something like that to happen to a woman because of a man back in those days was just very hard for me to grasp. Did anyone else have a hard time understanding that?

The characters in this book were so well written, I felt like the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, did a great job at letting us get into the characters mind, but still leaving some of their reasoning to the imagination. The characters, though, at the begining were very hard for me to understand. I couldn't keep track of them! Who was Daisy married too? How was she related to Nick? Who was Jordan dating? It definitely took me a while to understand who was who. After I did, though, the characters reasoning for things, and their actions made total sense.

I personally think that what really made the novel great were the characters. Some may disagree, but that's really what made the novel a great read for me. I felt like I could get inside the characters brains and really contemplate what they were doing during the novel.