[The Great Gatsby]
Year:
1925
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin
Year of publication:
2000
Pages:
177
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
The mysterious and dodgy financier Jay Gatsby has a romantic and destructive crush on Daisy Buchanan, set against the backdrop of Long Island, New York, where glamour and squalor are in equal measure. Gatsby's neighbour, Nick Carraway, tells the story of this age of excess - heavy drinking, gambling, fast cars, adultery and murder.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 and died young in 1940. He died soon after this wife descended into mental illness. This is regarded to be his finest work but dwells on the seedier side of life at the time.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)