The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
love loss literary fiction historical

Our Take

The green light was always out of reach and Fitzgerald knew it before Gatsby did. A love story about a lie told so completely it became a life. The American dream as tragedy — boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The ending hits differently every decade you read it.

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