I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fiztgerals for the first time decades ago, and was not much
impressed. Too shallow, about people who really don't matter in the
great scheme of things, I thought then. But with time I began to see it
as a novel with resonances that run deep in American culture and in
capitalist mythology. Definitely worth revisiting at this time when the
extremely wealthy atre trying so hard to make control the world to
their advantage. See Paul Krugman today on the financial deal worked out this week in the US, if you have any question about that. 
He
writes: "Democrats want to preserve the legacy of the New Deal and the
Great Society — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — and add to them
what every other advanced country has: a more or less universal
guarantee of essential health care. Republicans want to roll all of that
back, making room for drastically lower taxes on the wealthy. Yes, it’s
essentially a class war."The photos, by the way, are of F. Scott and his Zelda, Robert Redford and Mia Farrow playing Gatsby and Daisy in 1974 and Leonardo Dicaprio and Carey Mulligan in the same roles in the remake scheduled for release next May.
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