Reflection of Class Discussion

Class discussion on Tuesday was very interesting. I enjoyed the fact how Lamags and Keaton kept going back and forth on why the book was written and if F. Scott Fitzgerald really meant to put on the symbols in the novel. I also enjoyed how in stead of going into depth about the novel, Keaton just blatantly said that the author wrote it for money and didn’t mean to put all the symbols in the book, that they were just a coincidence. If you were to read the book without paying attention to it you wouldn’t catch most of the symbols. All you would get out of the reading is that this guy Gatsby gets rich just so he could impress an old girlfriend. With in all fairness that’s what the book is sort of about, but once you go into depth about the book it is nearly impossible to not notice the symbols in the novel and how they connect with the story and the American dream. The discussion in class was different and I liked how it brought out a different perspective of why authors write books. I never really thought they wrote books to make people think about what they are doing or how they do it. I always thought they wrote because they enjoyed it, I never thought they would try and hit topics and troubles of the world.