How Is The Great Gatsby Relevant Today

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a remarkable novel about a man, Jay Gatsby, who lives his life believing that wealth will lead him to happiness. The novel is told from the point of view of Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick Carraway, who realizes that living in the past and only caring about money is not the right way to live. Reason being for the book’s extraordinary remarks is because of how relevant the novel is to today’s modern society. When people can compare themselves to something, such as a book, they are more likely to enjoy it. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a stupendous novel that should be considered as one of America’s finest works because of its relatability to people in today’s modern society.
Relatability is key to writing a sensational book such as The Great Gatsby. In the novel, many characters have lots of money and when something goes wrong they believe their money can fix everything. Over the course of the book Jay Gatsby is trying to get Daisy to love him and he does that by showing off his material goods, “While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher --shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue” (Fitzgerald 92). Gatsby received all these different shirts from a man in England and makes sure to tell Daisy, so he can impress her. In today’s
Scott Fitzgerald: superb, mediocre, and horrific. The novel is superb because of its themes and relatability to people in today’s modern society. Even though the themes are repeated throughout the novel they hold a very big spot in today’s society, which is why they are so important to readers. In conclusion, The Great Gatsby should be considered as one of America’s best pieces of literature because of the themes that play a recurring role in our society today and allow relatability between characters and the