This is the title of a recent article they published in The Financial Times. I came across it on Facebook and shared it on my page as a way of having it on hand for later reading. A few days later, while taking a look at the string of nonsense I had posted recently, I remembered having shared the article, which I still thought pretty interesting, and decided to give it a look, only to learn that you need a subscription to read it. In the meantime, I was too baffled to notice I don't remember much from the novel. Was it ten, fifteen years ago I read it? I just recall reading it was a pleasant experience, and not much more. Well, whatever, I think I may want to read the novel again. After all, The Financial Times is doing a great job at promoting the rereading of good literature. Go figure!
By the way, don't let the picture at the head of my post fool you. I find it funny since it has become a popular gif in social media—I think I didn't even know it came from an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. However, I hardly ever see cinematic adaptations of literary classics.
Great writing! I've never read The Great Gatsby or seen the movie, but to your final point I do find it interesting how cinematic adaptations of literary classics are pretty sparse these days. Maybe they all got made in the 50s and 60s and now no one has the interest in remaking them.
I think it was a way for the cinema to become "respectable" at first (during the 40s mainly), and later on (in the 50s and 60s), a way to undertake the competition with the TV. Thank you for your comments!
There’s a disconnect between the title and what you’ve written. I was expecting to read about how Gatsby foretold Trump’s America according to The Financial Times. Perhaps change the title.
I read The Great Gatsby as a teenager but now don’t remember too much either. I remember we analyzed all of the symbolism to death in class, but I also recall that the themes were too mature (ie, I was too naive at the time) for me to understand. I have thought about rereading it too, but there are too many books and too little time 🥲
I started reading it again, and now I remember... The main character (the narrator) moves to the East to make a living in the financial market: bonds, securities, etc. The Roaring Twenties, just before the Great Crash. Does it ring a bell? lol
lol yes, although I've already forgotten that he went to work in finance! And I remember that there are a ton of tragic other characters.