The Great Gatsby

Making the case for The Great Gatesby as one of the fifty greatest books ever:

“…we can only guess at how barren the U.S. literary landscape would appear without Gatsby’s West Egg mansion in it, just as we can scarcely conceive of a U.S. canon of literature without Fitzgerald himself.”

Now I’m sure some wordsy one out there has something to say about this.

Great literature never dies. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has found a new group of followers among immigrant students who can relate to and find inspiration in the novel’s themes of possibility and aspiration.

What culture has a significant thread in American literature from Moby Dick to The Great Gatsby. The Dutch. Their explorations and their superimplanting their ethics and social consciousness has created The American Psyche.