The Classic I read was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I believe this book truly is a classic. Fitzgerald writes this book from the perspective of Nick Carraway, a World War One veteran. Nick had a very intriguing way of explaining the happenings of the story. For instance at some points instead of directly quoting what a character said, Nick would summarize some of the dialogue. The book leaps right in with Nick spending time with his cousin Daisy and her promiscuous husband, Tom. During this meeting you see, right away the frivolity and shallowness of some of the upper class. As Nick spends time at his cousin’s estate they spend most of their time drinking and trying to sound intelligent. At one point they even gossip about the butler’s nose. The only thing that stops them from this monotonous cycle of drinking and gossip is when Tom leaves the table. Daisy’s friend Jordan explains to Nick that he left to talk to his mistress on the phone. Soon after that Tom takes Nick with him to visit his mistress, who is also married, and take her to New York with them. As the story develops you see even more shallowness and promiscuity.
Nick meets Gatsby, a wealthy man with old money and an education from Oxford. Gatsby has grand parties at his house and as Nick finds out many people show up uninvited to drink Gatsby’s wine and be seen in high esteem. Nick also notices how fake the people can be. There are a few occasions in the book where people who have grudges between them, put out false flattery and even invite the others to spend time with them. It seems that much of their time was spent pretending everything was better off than it truly is. One of the most vivid cases of this takes place later in the book when Gatsby, who is running around with Daisy, has Tom over to his house along with a few others for a drink. The conversation was rigid but seemingly