As for The Chosen and the Beautiful, it is indeed very beautiful.but I can’t help but feel that it could have been so much more. I recognize why it’s an American classic objectively, and I don’t especially love it or hate it beyond that. I happen to be entirely neutral about The Great Gatsby, for what it’s worth. She just has to learn how.Ī significant number of reviews for this book seem to be largely about how much the reviewer hated The Great Gatsby in high school, which is pretty funny. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She’s also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.īut the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. For him, it was all a wrack and a ruin, and he had no idea why the rest of us weren’t screaming.” “When I looked at famous Jay Gatsby, soul gone and some terrible engine he called love driving him now, I could see that for him, the world was always ending.
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