Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a classic novel still today for different reasons. This novel is a tradgedy similar to Romeo and Juliet and Othello.  At the end of The Great Gatsby, Myrtle and Gatsby are both killed, At the end of Othello, Othello and Emilia die, and at the end of Romeo and Juliet,they both kill themselves.  People can relate to some of the events in this novel which keeps them reading, therefore, as years pass, people will continue to read it. This novel also shows the image of a self-made man and how Gatsby went from being poor and having nothing to being rich, successful, and popular.  The Great Gatsby is a classic novel and will be read for many many years because of its characteristics and how some people can relate to the events in it.

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