The Great Gatsby: Book Review

This week in class, we finally finished with our Great Gatsby unit, not that I am complaining.  For being a 'school book' I really enjoyed it.  Usually for me, when I am forced to read a book, I don't enjoy it as much as I normally would if I got to read it on my own at my own pace, but this book really surprised me.  I loved how Fitzgerald incorporated colors into the book.  This acted as my focus throughout the book.  Although there is no correct answer to what the colors mean, I thought it was cool how different people could see the meaning of the same color in extremely different ways.  My favorite character while reading the book started off being Daisy, but during the middle of the book when her character changed, I lost interest in her and began following the character of the narrator, Nick.  Although he didn't usually play a large role in the story line, he acted as a 'rock' and never changed even though everyone else around him was.  He told the truth, whether it was positive or not, and gave the reader a break from all of the things going on around him.  He also never had an opinion.  This gave the reader a chance to think for themselves and form their own opinion about what was happening.  I really liked this feature about Nick.  After reading this book, I would probably give it four out of five stars. As we start to watch the movie next week,  I hope that the movie will follow the story line of the book and keep some of the features in the book that made me enjoy reading it so much.  But, as long as Leonardo is in it, I'm sure it will be great!!!