Am I well-spoken enough to portray how I felt about this book in an intellectual way? No. So I won't, I shall simply leave my few sentences with no great claim of being an expert in American classics, literature or the English language.

It was a short, easy read and I compare it to reading an old diary. It held my interest and surprised me but it felt like I had to wade through the chapters for the plot. I told someone I didn't actually like any of the characters and their reply was 'that's the point' so at least it gave me something to think about after finishing it. If that truly is the point, then Fitzgerald nailed it - showing the grey area of each person from the narrator to the merely being mentioned in a paragraph characters and if we are to take anything from this review, at the end of the day, it's a classic, a book ticked off your reading list and something you'll know more about if it comes up in conversation.