I don't understand the appeal behind this book. Enlighten

>rich people are bored
Kek. Gatsby and Lost in Translation are the ultimate poorfag detectors.

>>9193738
More like
>women are whores

Prose! It's the prose!

>>9193783
The prose seems gaudy, dramatic, and repetitive.
>Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
To me, that passage illustrates exactly what he had said in the first sentence; brightness. Everything else is fluff. Shouldn't he be expanding upon this brightness, instead of simply saying it's unforgettable? The next sentences confuse me, and I can't really say why, just that it rubs me the wrong way.

Obviously that's just one example, and I've poorly explained it, but I'm not feeling the prose.

>>9193738

The dialogue is fun but that's about it. Tender is the Night and Fitzgerald's short stories are far superior.

>>9193822
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdLfPas8dw

>>9193738
i guess the idea is that the whole notion of having it all is dumb but yeah i feel like the sentiment could've been better expressed and a lot of its success is and i know this is kind of ridiculous sounding due to how iconic the cover art is