this is so well written. how is this considered high-school lit

Because the themes are easily digestible and everyone and their brother has read it.

Gotta have something for the youth to strive to understand instead of just spoon feeding them young adult shit. Also kids aren't stupid, they're just not experienced, and lit is something that takes time to really appreciate.

>>9937844
This book is pleb as fuck, come on man.
Read some Melville.

>>9937894
i fucking have dude, how can you say this is pleb? have you even read it?

I thought it was boring and the only well written part of the book was the ending by the swimming pool.

Maybe my dislike for the characters put me off.

>>9937909
I have read it. It's not all that special, even compared to shit like Chuck Palahniuk and William Golding.

>>9938061
GOLDING IS A GODDAMN GENIUS YOU MOTHERFUCKER

I always feel like a pleb saying this is my favorite book, but I just love it so much, I think it's so beautiful

>>9937844
I guess it's accessible enough for dumb teenagers, but it's usually poorly taught as well. When I read it in school it was taught only in terms if history and themes (that fucking green light!), without any aesthetic appreciation whatsoever. That's a waste. It creates generations of students inoculated against ever enjoying it. A shame.

It's short, has a lot of aspects that make for a lot of classroom lessons. Textbook companies already have lessons planned using it. It has drinking, parties, sex, and murder making it seem almost like something school shouldn't assign.

>>9937844
Waste of time

>>9937844
i liked it in high school but i didn't think it was super special so i read tender is the night afterwards and was blown away. that was fitzgerald's real masterpiece. a lot of similar themes are explored but are given more attention

Is nick really gay?