Blog Post #24

Why is The Great Gatsby the great american novel?

the Great Gatsby is considered by some to be one of the greatest works of literature, or at least the great american novel. but why is it considered so? in the documentary we watched about the lost generation we saw that young adults who aspires to be writers would study literature from europe. for years writers would try and create a great AMERICAN novel. Fitzgerald accomplished this with his book. he tried to capture american values and the american dream and inserted them into a novel. Gatsby is the american dream, well at least part of him, he got rich quick, bought a big house and got the the girl, well sort of. this is why The Great Gatsby is the great american novel.