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The Great Gatsby 'And Restful Night'
Someone once said, “Let books be your mattress and you shall sleep restful nights.” I think this is a very precise evaluation for the book, the great Gatsby. If you have a hard time fall in sleep, read this book, this book is definitely boring enough to make you sleep. It is a story about a poor but honest man, Nick, witnesses how a crazy millionaire Gatsby tries to win back the beautiful, materialistic girl, Daisy, he dumped about five years ago, but she already married to a rich, racist and selfish man whose name is Tom. Finally, this crazy millionaire was murdered by the husband of Tom’s third wheel. After all of these, this honest man, Nick disgusted city life and went back to where he belongs. So a boring,shows violence and negative energy …show more content…
In chapter II, Nick went to Tom’s apartment and had a crazy party, speak of party, for sure there will be some people come to the party. However, is it really necessary to list and describe every single person who come to the party? I do not think so. Long describing paragraphs like, “ The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty…”, “ Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man from the flat below. He had just shaved…” and “ Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-colored chiffonIn…” Why this author has to bored me with these boring descriptions before a party plot? If you keep reading this book and you will find out that those characters are not important. Also, in chapter IV, before Gatsby parked his car in front of Nick’s house and invented him for lunch, there are at least 3 pages of boring and pointless name listing. I bet some readers like would be like, “ Oh, come on! Not names again!” . Here is the textual evidence, “From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil Schoen and Gulick the state senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who afterward …show more content…
When readers read books, the most common thing they will do is plug themselves into the story and the characters. However, there are so many negative examples in this book that are not appropriate for readers to do so. The narrator of the story, Nick came to big city, New York, hoped he could be successful in bond business, but after he saw all those crazy, unfair and inhuman incidents, he felt disgusted and gave up his dream in New York. Some of the readers who might in the same situation as Nick would worried about their own future that will they just end up like Nick, lost their hopes in offish city. A romantic millionaire like Gatsby tried to use five years to win back a girl but he still failed and died. Some readers who are not in a relationship or still try to get someone’s attentions, is it possible that they might just give up because they think they are not any better than Gatsby? This book is not just inundated with negative energy but also violent sentences and actions. Such as, “ “ It’s a bitch,” said Tom decisively.” , “ “Beat me!” he heard cry. “ Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!” ” and also the scene of Gatsby got murdered. They all not very nice to show either. I don't like violence, I believe a lot of readers did not except that was coming. So I don't think it is a great

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