What did you learn during this Unit? Did you like the novel? Why or why not?

Through the first unit: The Great Gatsby Reading and Writing America. I learned how the discovery of America affected literature and how literature affected the rise and fall of the American Dream. I learned about the different contrast in the 1920’s and it’s context (how at the time people were moving forward and backward at the same time). This due to the different occurrences of the time: racism, prohibition, bootlegging, jazz music, technological advances (movies with sound), mass production, “freedom” in women (who could vote and dress in the flopper look). All of this concepts and ideas appear in Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby in which the context and the people of the time are criticized for their cynical attitudes and shallowness. The novel represents an era by telling the stories of six main characters (Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan and Myrtle) and their relationships. My personal opinion of the novel is that it is extremely important and interesting for what it represents. However, the plot in the story was ok (it wasn’t good nor bad), it could have been more interesting especially in the way in which different events were narrated. And therefore I like the novel for what it represents and it’s importance to a decade but I am neutral to the plot and the events narrated.