The Great Gatsby

         This book was a fairly quick read but at times had some slow and boring parts where not much seemed to add to the story. 
         What I had to do was make a list of all the characters just so I could continue to understand who is who and how they were related.  As mentioned in the title, Gatsby was a major character along with the narrator.  Making notes on each of the characters seemed to be helpful and allowed me to keep reading through the story while understanding it.  I found myself imagining all of the events in the story such as the parties at the mansion to help comprehend each event and what order they happened in. 
         Since this book was written quite a while ago, the authors style of writing somehow seems different than modern books and harder to understand.  While taking some time to annotate the book and making notes of key events helps to realize what is going on and makes it much easier to go back and see what happened in a certain part.  Some parts seemed sort of clustered such as when Wilson was hit by a car, seemed to have a lot of events happen quickly and all at once.  Upon the conclusion of the book after Gatsby had died and the narrator meets Gatsby's family seems to wrap up the book in an unusual way.  Overall the book wasn't one of my favorites because a lot of times being difficult to understand, but there was a story that for the most part I was able to follow.