The Great Gatsby

De: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrado por: Anthony Heald

Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since married for money. Holding on to his illusion of Daisy as perfect, he seeks to impress her with his wealth, and uses his new neighbor, Nick Carraway (our narrator), to reach her.

Daisy’s wealthy but boring husband is cheating on her. When his mistress is killed in an accident caused by Daisy, Gatsby covers for her and takes the blame. The result is a murder and an ending that reveals the failure of money to buy love or happiness.

Fitzgerald’s elegantly simple work captures the spirit of the Jazz Age and embodies America’s obsessions with wealth, power, and the promise of new beginnings.

Public Domain (P)2007 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Will never not love this

The great gatsby will always be my favorite book. I have the book, the movie, and now I’ve listened to the audio version. It’s such a timeless book and will never get old to me

Story

I had to reread this book…. there’s so much I missed during the first read. I didn’t realize how he lost his life… why didn’t Daisy return his affection. LIFE!

classic

It's just a good classic 😌. There's not much else to say, honestly. I just enjoy this story.

Great listen

I really enjoyed this listen definitely worth giving a whirl. Now I’m interested to see the movie

A durable story

I first read this story over 50 years ago when I was in college. The story holds up over the years. Very interesting how the portions of the story I most identify with have changed with my life’s experiences.

A literary classic expertly narrated

What more can be said for the this classic other than it’s should be on every reader’s/listener’s bucket list? Anthony Heald brings refreshing life to this Fitzgerald Masterpiece.

classic

Always a great classic to listen too. It never gets old. I did listen to it at 1.2 speed as it was a little slow.

Great depressing book!

Great book, depressing ending. If you want a happy ever after, don’t read this one.

Annoying Smacking noise

A classic, of course, and amazing. But though I liked the narrator’s tone and inflections, his voicing of female characters sounded like a mimicry… and worst of all there was so much smacking and the sound of too much spit in his mouth. Maybe that doesn’t bother a lot of people, but those of us who can’t stand that noise will understand. I wish the sound editors had muffled it so it wasn’t quite so annoying.

The Great Gatsby: A Classic

The Great Gatsby has been one of my favorite books since I first read it back in high school for an assignment. Ever since reading it, I’ve always felt some invisible string tethering me to the story. A story about the American Dream and how, at the end of the day, it’s really all just smoke and mirrors. The true dream is love and being surrounded by it. True genuine love, to be specific. Because it’s one thing to be loved and admired for your accolades and accomplishments, but it’s another to be loved for who you are behind all the glitz, gold and glam!

As the song goes, all that glitters ain’t gold… and my oh my how that is true! In the end, Jay Gatsby dies a poor man longing for the one true thing he could never have: LOVE. And to add salt to the wound, he loved a woman who came from a world he was never from. A world in which marrying for love isn’t priority in most cases. If anything marrying is for business purposes and the advancement of one’s current established wealth or name in an industry. He loved a women from the world of the elite and he was simply just an average man, from an average background, who experienced the world in ways Daisy, the love of his life, never had and never will because she never has too. That is what excited her about him but that excitement wasn’t enough to keep her from following the traditional footsteps of women of her status in that era typically follow. Gatsby, in the end, never stood a chance - even despite the wealth he amounted. He would always be seen as the “other” in the world of the elite - which circles back to the idea of the American Dream being smoke and mirrors. As glitzy as one get, when the pomp and circumstances die down, you are left with the bitter, ugly and honest truth that the American Dream is simply just that: a dream until you redefine it as something GREATER beyond just material things.

In the end, it’s a classic book worth a read - even if just for the culture of reading the classics. It’s a great read in the sense of understanding the haves and the have nots. It’s eye opening to the fact that, in the end, all you need is love as all the other “stuff” is just a perk but not NECESSARY to creating the life you truly want. The American Dream may just be a dream but it can quickly become a reality if you have someone to share your life with in meaningful way.