I don't like The Great Gatsby.

In my opinion, The Great Gatsby is anything but great. It is very much a pessimistic look at the state of America in the 1920s, and I personally dislike that. When I learned about the 1920s, it finally seemed like a turnaround for the issues that mattered most in America but were being ignored before: being less segregated, women's rights, and corruption in the government and economy. America was on the path to reforming and becoming more modern. So I failed to understand why a story about degrading this modernism while also disparaging people of the Midwest was considered a classical American literature piece.

This book feels less like American literature and more like American satire the more you analyze it. The New Woman is frowned upon, black people are treated as jokes, andthe character that represents the East Coast, Gatsby, is said to be a fake and a fraud. So it is clear that Fitzgerald did not like the changes in the 1920s. However, the Midwest isn't much better given that it is represented by Tom Buchanan, one of the most hated characters in literature. Racist, sexist, misogynistic, and classist, he is the whole package when it comes to a Nativist. His view of the world is comparable to a KKK member, with jow he views himself higher than any other person becaude of the way he was born, and Nick is very similar. It doesn't paint a good picture of the Midwest, which means America is just not painted in a good light at all. This book shouldn't be considered "American literature"; rather, it shoudl be called Ametican pessimism.