“And he looked at her, like all women want to be looked at by a man.”
The Great Gatsby is not only an international bestseller, but also the gentleman novel par excellence. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes what a man will do simply to get closer to his true love. Gatsby, a mysterious but elegant man of the nouveau riche, meets his beloved Daisy. Together with Daisy’s cousin and the first-person narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, we find ourselves in the time of the wild 20s – a time full of excess, idealism, art and drug abuse; a time of mobsters and mendacious Hellenism. True feelings have little place in this world. Yet Jay Gatsby tries everything to win Daisy back, as she is married to another man.
It’s a book about powerful emotions, class hierarchies and the powerlessness of a man in a dishonest world.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
