I first read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, when I was in high school and got the opportunity to read it again for my American Lit: Modern class. Nick Carroway describes himself as open an uncritical to experiences. Tom is viewed as a brute and Daisy is viewed as complicated, wearing a happy face with grief behind it. Fitzgerald makes notes of a green light hanging from Daisy's dock. Gatsby is an "American Adam," with the chance to start life all over again. Gatsby keeps a schedule similar to the one in Benjamin Franklin's biography. Gatsby believes in the American dream and dreams of possessing everything. Nick Carroway tells us that Gatsby turned all right in the end.
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