I haven't watched the video yet, but unless I'm misreading the title, there is an error here. Jay Gatsby didn't drink. He probably did in the movie versions of the novel, but in the actual novel, we never see him drunk. Fitzgerald was a lush, but not Jay Gastby.
The Great Gatsby is the one novel almost every high school or college student reads. Because it's short. Hardly anyone has read Moby Dick. It's a great novel, but the average person won't get through it, and most high school teachers, unless they are idiots, realize it is better suited for a select college crowd. So I'd go with Gatsby or Mockingbird as GAN, and due to the flaws in Mockingbird, Gatsby wins.
@@MetFansince I agree. I think TKAM is a novel of its time and serves as a commentary on something very important that has faced the United States relating to continued problems in race relations. Even though we had already seen an end to slavery decades before TKAM arrived, the country was still plagued by a messy approach to how people should rightfully be treated. And how they still weren't. Gatsby itself had its own commentary on something rather large and all-encompassing...the American Dream. And how that dream is realized by many, but not so much by others. A theme that still exists today. It's timeless. I think both are important for their own reasons, but personally I favor the writing style of Fitzgerald. Interestingly though, in his own way, he too comments on race relations through the bigoted and racist characterization of Tom who denigrates people of color who have to be, as Daisy states, sarcastically, "beat...down." This after saying that Tom has become more "profound" as he reads "deep books" with "long words" in them. She is openly mocking him and his stance. Overall, I also go with Gatsby for the win.
Nothing sums up the current gen than two nobodies taking shots at F Scott. "He's a good writer but ..." ... "when I write my great American novel". Shut up and go away.
I haven't watched the video yet, but unless I'm misreading the title, there is an error here. Jay Gatsby didn't drink. He probably did in the movie versions of the novel, but in the actual novel, we never see him drunk. Fitzgerald was a lush, but not Jay Gastby.
If someone asked me what the great American novel was, I’d either say “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Moby Dick”.
What’s the point of this comment?
The Great Gatsby is the one novel almost every high school or college student reads. Because it's short. Hardly anyone has read Moby Dick. It's a great novel, but the average person won't get through it, and most high school teachers, unless they are idiots, realize it is better suited for a select college crowd. So I'd go with Gatsby or Mockingbird as GAN, and due to the flaws in Mockingbird, Gatsby wins.
@@MetFansince I agree.
I think TKAM is a novel of its time and serves as a commentary on something very important that has faced the United States relating to continued problems in race relations. Even though we had already seen an end to slavery decades before TKAM arrived, the country was still plagued by a messy approach to how people should rightfully be treated. And how they still weren't.
Gatsby itself had its own commentary on something rather large and all-encompassing...the American Dream. And how that dream is realized by many, but not so much by others. A theme that still exists today. It's timeless.
I think both are important for their own reasons, but personally I favor the writing style of Fitzgerald.
Interestingly though, in his own way, he too comments on race relations through the bigoted and racist characterization of Tom who denigrates people of color who have to be, as Daisy states, sarcastically, "beat...down." This after saying that Tom has become more "profound" as he reads "deep books" with "long words" in them. She is openly mocking him and his stance.
Overall, I also go with Gatsby for the win.
Nothing sums up the current gen than two nobodies taking shots at F Scott. "He's a good writer but ..." ... "when I write my great American novel". Shut up and go away.