It's been a while since i wrote about a novel or frankly anything I have read. I asume almost everyone has heard of The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I read this novel last semester but yeasterday we had a guest lecturer at the university talking about Gatsby's sifting personal identity. This novel is a bit different from an ordinary novel it is narrated from the view of a character who are present in the story. This aspect of the narration makes the novel very interesting at the same time as it makes you wonder if you can trust the narrator? Many of the events narrated in the story the narrator Nick couldn't be apart of, who how does he know what have happened and what have been said? How can we trust that what he writes is the truth? 

Narration of this novel is only one small part of the whole novel and a second really intersting aspect is Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel we don't know who he is and he is portrayed in a kind of mystical manner since he throws these parties but knowone really knows who the host of the party is. Later in the novel we learn that Gatsby throws these parties for a long lost love, Daisy. According to the lecturer Gatsby lives in the past in that manner that he believes that he and Daisy still are in love. He doesn't really see Daisy as who she is, for example, Gatsby can't tell what it is about her that he loves so much. In one way he as injected his own person and connected his own identity to Daisy and when loosing her he looses himself. 

I haven't seen the film adaptation of the novel, but the lecturer argued that the film portrayed a love story which actually never takes place in the film. It's not a love story, it's a story about identity in one manner. As a reader you can almost decide yourself what kind of story you want to get out of it since there are a lot of interpretations you can make.

If I would use this novel in a class it would be in English 7 since it is not a very easy novel to read or to understand. I would use it as a part of a theme about identity for example since this novel portrayes Gatsby's idenity crisis in one manner and how he deals with it. The interpretation could be somewhat dark since Gatsby dies at the end of the novel and I believe that if he hadn't been shoot he would have taken his own life because he has lost his identity. Gatsby identified himself in Daisy and loosing her is to much for him.