"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." 
 Well this book was just a joy. Reading to acquaint myself with The Great Gatsby before reading it in class next year and explore the novel in a fundamental and mundane sense to revisit next year for deeper analysis. Whenever a novel is assigned in class I feel the need to read the book more than one for a more inherent understanding and a deeper admiration for the book in discussion even if I did not enjoy the novel. The Great Gatsby however, I loved from the moment Nick spies Gatsby on his porch looking out toward the green light. This is an emphatic image from the novel that has stayed with me among other images and symbols. Speaking of symbols, the symbolism is what shines; Fitzgerald's use of colour, most noticeably, and of weather (a favourite of mine ever since Mercutio and Tybalt's fatal encounter in Romeo & Juliet: "these hot days, is the mad blood stirring"). With the help of supplementary material to weave my way around the narrator, Nick Carraway's, long-streaming, befuddling sentences I was able to more competently understand not only the language but too the depth behind the choices made by character's and their relationships with one another. This is a harrowing account of one man's yearn for wealth to obtain dreams too distant in the past for his clumsily outstretched hands. 
 This is a novel that I am excited to reread and urge anyone to read if have not done already. In such a short novel I feel that I have spent such a long time with the characters and nothing that takes place in this novel is irrelevant to the story. I feel that the characters of Nick, Gatsby, Daisy and even Tom and Jordan will stay with me for quite some time (or at least until I reread The Great Gatsby for English). Trust me, it is a well worth a read.