The Great Gatsby was a very interesting, but confusing book. The time periods in this book were all over. I still enjoyed it a lot though, it was a book you can think about and ask questions with. Some things were extremely hard to understand but for some reason I couldn’t stop reading I just wanted to find out what was going to happen next. I picked two quotes that relate to “The Great Gatsby” that I am going to explain.

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” This quote is initiating that good writing takes time to do; it’s not something you can just come up with overnight. As you can see Fitzgerald put a lot of thought into his writing. That’s why this book was such a big turn out. The time periods were around from his time and he made it known in his writing. Even though some parts were a little confusing he showed how much effort he put into the book by putting things in the book that us readers can relate to like World War I for example. So basically Fitzgerald gets his point across to his readers by a thought process that you can tell takes up a lot of time and energy in his life. In the end his writing was a big success so there was no regrets to be made.

"That was always my experience—a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton…I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works." This quote relates so much to “The Great Gatsby”. Nick was a middle class guy who is surrounded by people who have a lot of money, like Gatsby. Fitzgerald I guess was surrounded by the rich his whole life and he put his life story into the book “The Great Gatsby” to let his readers know how he felt on this topic.