Choose any topic of interest that we have discussed in class (or not discussed, if you have a new one) in relation to The Great Gatsby and explore it further. Use textual evidence to support your ideas.
For my blog post, I would like to address the surreal nature of the book The Great Gatsby and how a simple and boring story of love and loss takes a turn for murder and madness. From the start of the book there has been an air of no responsibility and carefree fun that all of the characters have, almost as though anything that is being taken seriously is just a first world problem and that by the end no matter what happens the worst that will happen is people will walk away with their feelings hurt. Then as the book progresses you start to realize how much greed and madness the world they live in contains. The book end with greed and lust overtaking many of the characters and driving them to kill each other or themselves. This ending left me with a bad taste in my mouth about the book and how it was written as it seems to have nothing profound to its ending except for the knowledge that bad things happen.
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