Re-reading something that captured your greatest attention is always better the second time round, am I right?!

Enough about Nick being an unreliable narrator okay yes he is because we know he seems to really love Gatsby and NOT because he was in some sort of hospital like Baz Lurman's film suggested (I did not get that when reading the book). What I love about Gatsby is that it makes you love him and appreciate through Nick's words. That's all he ever wanted. Deep down I'm convinced Gatsby never cared about whether he was East or West Egg or to be quite honest living like Wilson in the Valley Of Ashes...Daisy. He wanted Daisy. To be loved.

I think one of the most telling things is when he reaches out for the green light across the water on the end of Daisy's dock. Sure, green connotes money and wealth in the new world, jealousy (Tom vs Gatsby) but it reminds me of green grass, leaves and spring time. Fresh starts, all that Gatsby really wants is to start his life with Daisy the irony is he doesn't want the fresh start he yearns for the past.

Nick Carraway, secretly I think he loves Gatsby just as much as Gatsby loves Daisy. He sees a vunerable Gatsby that no one else sees- something within him- perhaps the child Jay Gatz that aspired for so much more. Maybe he wanted to help Gatsby grow up a little? After all for such a self made man Gatsby always came of as insecure as someone loving something for the first time.

Daisy is just my least favourite character. Grrrrr. If this was a tragic play she be the cause of the tradgedy, a gothic the femme fatal that liked to play the victim. I feel like she played Gatsby. Like a sneaky cat teasing a mouse before it eats it all up.

What I love about Gatsby is the realist vibes it gives. Oh and the extravagance of the detail for those sumptuous parties. Everything was so outrageous and chaotic but drew you in like magpies to a shimmer. What I would give to have been in America during the Gatsby era, Fitzgerald seems such a fascinating man! The all American dream isn't what it was made out to be, even if you did have the colossal castle like Gatsby or a cutie chocolate box cottage like little Nick. Life isn't easy but neither is love or (believe it or not) happiness, it seems like this book shows you can dream but never deceive yourself by imagining everything will turn out perfect or easy.

The Great Gatsby. A true literary classic.