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When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success, but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had, by Fitzgerald's time, become increasingly focused on money and pleasure - a phenomenon with which the high-living writer was all too familiar.

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The pacing of the story is slow to start. Very dull and made me very confused why the book was considered a classic. It picks up near the end but that doesn’t make up for the glacial start.

The start may not be so painfully slow if you want to read about fictional rich people of yesteryear brag on about the life of the wealthy.

The movie is probably the better route to go if you aren’t an avid reader/can’t deal with slow pace. It’s not perfect by any means but showed me why people love this story more than the novel did.

Slow to start and get good

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I rarely say this, but the movie was actually better. It's hard to follow at times because he talks to so many people, and describes things that are better shown. I don't recall the movie as I've only seen it once, but I'm sure the sexism and racism are much less in it. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio is a delight so xD

Dated. Sexist and racist.

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The narrator takes arbitrary pauses without regard to punctuation or sentence flow, constantly. And not in an endearing way like Christopher Walken.

brutal narration

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