Liz D.’s Comments (group member since Apr 01, 2013)

Liz D.’s comments from the Scribner Books group.

The last time I read The Great Gatsby was a little over a year ago during my 3rd year of college. I always like to reread some of my favorite books when I'm feeling stressed out and needing some kind of escape.

The first time I read The Great Gatsby was in high school. My senior year, it wasn't for a homework assignment or anything, but reading classic books made me curious and I can't lie, the book cover kind of pulled me in too.

I never actually had a favorite character, maybe Jordan cause she's just as honest as I find the book to be.

Although I wasn't too sure about Carey Mulligan for the physical traits of Daisy, I've seen her other work and I'm certain she will definitely do the character justice. Same thing with Isla Fisher. But Leonardo DiCaprio, may IMO be a bit too intense for Gatsby, but who knows? maybe that's exactly what the casting directors were going for.

"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

To me, The Great Gatsby is classic because of it's honesty. Especially being published during a time when it was all about the facade, the lavishness and illusion of grandeur. It tells the story of love, tragedy, hope and deception, all against the scenes of parties and social gatherings where people dare not speak of terrible things so as not to ruin the good time. I found it interesting how sucked into the world the book made me feel, how affected I was by these fictional characters. The fact that I could relate and understand these characters when they were supposed to exist in another era is what I feel like makes the book so wonderful. I've never been in the exact same situations, but it's like these are people I know, they exist, in essence, in the form of other people in today's world.