The Great Gatsby

   I think it’s just because F. Scott Fitzgerald did a great job of writing a “to the point  novel.”  This story deals with the downside of new American dreams of fast cash and forlorn desires just as it clashes with old money and greed.  While, perhaps now, a period piece of a time with the cool new technology of cars and air conditioning in an excess of issues surrounding a class of social elitist, politicians and pawns.
   By the time of the novels resurgence in print of a literary capable post WWII new American society these settings are seen as constants in the daily lives of men throughout history.  However, now “The Great Gatsby” has now pulled back the curtain for all readers to see what brutality and betrayal of a high class society really look like in a literary sense.  Although a short novel there is enough time for the prose to allow an inward reflection on those feeling of loneliness and despair.  Gatsby cannot truly be seen as a “Hero” in the story but his character is one that we can easily identify with even especially among the rest of the sociopathically aloof.
   In the tragic ending on the novel Fitzgerald articulates how ironic a rush rife with shortcuts toward ones desires can end abruptly.  Then to have the guilty socially powerful get away with this ScotFree also makes a statement about the constants of human existence.
   I saw the similarity of F. Scott and Scott Free, so decided to look this up as a coincidence with ScotFree and low and behold there is none.  For a minute there I wondered if this book didn’t inspire the phrase “Scott Free.”  However, the term ScotFree has been around since the Saxon days of old.  Scot actually means taxes.  In place such as Ireland the term ScotFree has been around for a long time meaning to get away with out paying the taxes due.  Guess what else?  This last paragraph with only a limited connection takes me to the three hundred word requirement.

P.S.  I did see “Last Days of Disco” and it sucked!  It was like listening to Charlie Browns teacher ramble on and on…