The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Jan 22, 2017
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Themes of the Book

After finishing F. Scott Fitzgerald's most successful novel, I first found myself wishing the story had ended differently... Wishing Jay Gatsby didn't have to die. But then I realized that from Gatsby's death, and the story line that followed, came a very important theme for readers to learn. The main idea that I collected from the fact that not one person from the house-load of people that regularly attended Gatsby's wild parties came to his funeral, besides Nick, was this: The quality of friends is much more important than the quantity.
I believe there is also another hidden theme within the story. Take Daisy, for example. Daisy taught me that happiness isn't always correlated with wealth. She left Jay Gatsby, a handsome man who made her happy and who she truly loved, to marry Tom Buchanan because he had more money to provide her with a wealthy lifestyle. Sure, she loved Tom, but it was clear that her love for Jay Gatsby was deeper and she lived with some regrets of leaving him.
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