I am so excited to see this on screen at the end of the year. I think it is really well cast and the story lends itself so well to a fast paced drama of the flapper era. The intriguing characters are both so complex and simple. They seem to have a lot going on on the surface but when you realized their motivations, its so simple. To paraphrase Jordan Baker at the first Gatsby summer party, busy characters are more intimate. You really get to know this group of characters well and I felt for their struggles. Their stories seem really deep but Fitzgerald does a great job of tying them all together. The only one I was really hoping for more from was Jordan Baker but I supposed because the narrator was half in love with her, it's easy to see why we don't get to know her better as Nick spends more time with Gatsby than Jordan.
I have to comment on the amazing love triangle going on here. Well, it's really more of a love polygon. I would have to guess that this is part of what trips people up when they say they don't like The Great Gatsby. What you have to remember though is all of the main 6 characters' motivations are tied back to this love polygon. I won't give you a full map of who loves whom and who is having an affair with whom but the way it all ties together is really great. It really adds to the intrigue of the story. As a modern reader, I could see how things should be but from a historical stand point, I can also see why they didn't work out. It was a really well written tangle of love. But don't expect smutty love scenes. Fitzgerald writes about evenings of wild parties and the privacy of large groups.
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