It didn't make the genius of the novel totally clear to me, but opinions are gonna differ. I found a lot more to admire in the story than I'd ever found before, and was very impressed with the actor playing Gatsby, who managed to bring a degree of danger and interest to the character that I'd never found there before.
Otherwise, I've never seen what the big deal is about GATSBY. Fitzgerald seems shocked, SHOCKED, to find decadence and evil among the Very Rich, and he seems to expect me to take some significant message away from the tedious little story that he serves up with so much admittedly gorgeous prose. There's less there than meets the eye.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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