Nicholas’s Comments (group member since Mar 14, 2013)

Nicholas’s comments from the Scribner Books group.

I read Gatsby for the first time in 11th grade and enjoyed every word. I even tried calling people "old sport" while we were reading it. SInce then, I've read it twice. I promised myself it'd be what I read every summer. And I'm reading Trimalcho now. Just on the trailer, I'd say Leonardo really pulls off Gatsby. If I had to picture him, I'd picture Gatsby as Leonardo and Redford put together. My favorite quotes were when Gatsby said "Can't repeat the past. Why of course you can." and at the end when Nick described how "Gatsby believed in the green light."

I think Gatsby is classic for much the same reason any gangster movie is viewed as a classic: it shows a poor boy doing he what can to get what he wants. I'd also say it's because we know the relationship between him and Daisy is doomed, but we still hope against hope Gatsby can reach his green light.

1. Farewell to Arms
2. The world is a fine place and it's worth fighting for.
3. My favorite character is either Henry Barkley or Santiago.
4. I don't know which book I'd take. Probably Old Man and the Sea because it's inspiring personally to fight for your goals and because how Hemingway wrote it makes you feel the isolation and the struggle between Santiago and the fish.