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The Great Gatsby was one of the great classics called the ‘Great American Novel’ along with ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. Simply put, it means that it is an American novel with an American soul.

In Korea, it was more famous as a scene in a movie than in a novel. (It was the scene where DiCaprio, who played the role of Gatsby, raises his glass. I’m not sure why it’s famous.)

Personally, it was my favorite among the novels that symbolize the ‘American Dream’. Isn’t the contrast between a gorgeous dream and a gutter-like reality something that warms the heart whenever you see it?

– “You often hear that your senior has a bad personality, right?”

– “Well. It seems like I’ve heard a lot from you lately.”

– “hihi. That’s right. Anyway, isn’t Gatsby’s reality such a ‘gutter-like’ reality? He is literally a symbol of the American dream. It’s romantic that you can give up everything for love.”

– “It’s a bit romantic to call a failed affair and being shot dead due to a misunderstanding… .”

– “Ah, it’s a tradition that’s continued since the days of Goethe.”

– “That’s… Aren’t the cases a little different?”

– “What do you think? Romantic is romantic.”

– “They say that even Japanese literature doesn’t understand emotions… .”

– “Ah, senior, that’s discrimination against Japanese literature!”

anyway.

The Great Gatsby was an American fantasy itself. It was the most American dream, the most American decadence.

There is no America in this world, but—.

There would be no difficulty in adopting the American spirit. Gatsby wasn’t the only American literature I plagiarized from.

Making the incomprehensible understandable.

Because it was the power of literature.

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The Great Gatsby.

The existence of the new novel that Homer prepared as a ‘Christmas present’ became known to the public through people who attended the dinner party.

Naturally, the reaction was also quite dramatic.

“There is a new work of Homer that only a few people have… ?”

“Kwaaagh! Why wasn’t I invited to the dinner party?! A chance for me to read ‘The Great Gatsby’ too!”

Although it was scheduled to be officially published a month later—.

Since I found out about its existence, waiting for a month was itself an ordeal.

Accordingly, the reactions of Homer believers were also divided into several categories.

“Did you hear that story? The theme of this new novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’, is well─.”

“Ahh! Don’t say it! Never until I read it myself!”

There were also people who covered their eyes and ears and stayed away to avoid being spoiled.

“Princess Isolet, perhaps I am also part of the rumor… Can I read ‘that’ novel?”

“Hehe, sorry. I want to show you too, but… It is probably not polite to the author of Homer to show something you received as a gift before publishing.”

“Oh, that’s right. I guess I asked for a useless favor. instead… Can you just tell me what kind of novel it is?”

“Of course.”

There were also cases where people at a dinner party asked someone they were close with to show them a novel.

In cases where friendship did not work, some kind of ‘deal’ was suggested.

“Hmm, Count Plummer.”

“It’s a big deal that the Fair Trade Commission Chairman is visiting in person.”

“Well, I heard that the resolution recently submitted by the Conservative Party is pending due to opposition from the Progressive Party… Isn’t there something I can help you with?”

“Hmm?”

“It’s hard to say that’s the price… A new work said to have been written by Homer… Ugh… .”

“Aha… .”

“Kuhum, big.”

For this reason, in the empire, having read ‘The Great Gatsby’ served as a kind of power.

Naturally, there were people who obtained unpublished copies of ‘The Great Gatsby’ from dinner party attendees and attempted to reproduce them illegally.

“Huh, are there still kids like this these days? And that unpublished copy of Homer? The liver is really big too.”

“Wrong! I am deeply reflecting!”

“We even prepared a printer… Were you planning to use the drug dealers who roamed beyond the yellow wall? I think he did this because he had some kind of belief… The person looking after you must be a very high-ranking person?”

“Are you the one who looks after my back? Uh, the plan I came up with all by myself─.”

“If you listen slowly, you will understand. I’m going to interrogate you, so bring the purple wizard.”

“Yes!”

They were all arrested in front of the empire’s solemn public power.

This was due to the fact that the ‘Homer Foundation’ was shouldering some of the administrative burden of the National Police Agency’s security management, resulting in an increase in the number of manpower used to arrest criminals.

As such cases increased, people’s fantasy about ‘The Great Gatsby’ grew.

I fell into the strange illusion that all the problems and strife in the world would be solved if I just read The Great Gatsby. Of course, this was a ridiculous fantasy, but…

As a result.

“What are humans doing to our beast school?”

” I heard that you can read ‘The Great Gatsby’ here… . haha… .”

“Hmm?”

“Hi?! Well, can’t that?”

“You can’t be stingy with guests who come to tour the school. Follow me.”

“Hahaha… .”

We have also solved quite a few problems and conflicts.

Disabled writers from ‘Beyond the Yellow Wall’, priests and teachers who ran orphanages, prisoners including Gray… .

They are not closed-minded like the wizards of the Magic Tower, do not pathologically believe in Homer like the students at the academy, and do not have high power like high-ranking nobles or the imperial family.

People who are close but don’t make an effort to see them.

The number of people visiting such places to read ‘The Great Gatsby’ at least once has increased.

“Beasts… Aren’t you kinder than you imagined?”

“Sure. Fangs are scary, and they say they get excited at the sight of blood… Other than that, your personality seemed pretty good, right?”

“Fur… good… I want to pet you… .”

“What.”

In particular, the image of ‘suin’ has changed a lot.

This was because Gray had placed ‘The Great Gatsby’ in a school that could be said to be the center of the prisoner community. A school was not a place where only children were taught, like a human school, but a place similar to a kind of lifelong education center.

Most of the prisoners at the school were particularly cultured among the prisoners. Naturally, the images of the beastmen of the humans who encountered them were also bound to change dramatically.

like that.

With various changes.

“The Great Gatsby… You’re finally reading this novel!”

The most ‘American’ novel spread throughout the empire.

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“You’ve read The Great Gatsby?!”

“Yes! I was lucky enough to have a chance to read it. So, what is the plot?─.”

‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel set during the ‘Prohibition Era’ in the United States.

To briefly summarize the plot, it can be said to be a story about a poor man becoming obsessed with a married woman and then falling into ruin.

“─So that’s what happened!”

“Uh, what on earth is that about? So what… Why is the character Gatsby great? Aren’t you just a criminal who did something foolish because you fell in love?”

“No, that’s not it─ Anyway, you’ll know if you read it yourself! It’s really fun!”

Gatsby was not a very great person from a traditional perspective. He was a wealthy man who changed his status through luck, and an unscrupulous man who made his money by cheating the law and selling pleasures. (In fact, even from a modern perspective, he is not a proper human being.)

Nonetheless, ‘The Great Gatsby’ was a great novel.

Gatsby was a great person.

It is impossible to understand ‘The Great Gatsby’ simply by ‘seeing’ it. You cannot understand Gatsby or his greatness by reading only the plot.

“Can you imagine a sincere yet ambitious person being blinded by love and running towards destruction?”

” By the way, do I have to wait until it is officially published? ”

As always, to borrow the expression of the Little Prince… What was truly important could only be seen with the heart.

‘The Great Gatsby’ clearly exposes the contradictory emotions of humans.

It goes beyond simply ‘shaking’ emotional lines and dramatically contrasts everything in the novel.

Gatsby is a truer conman than anyone else, a hedonist who sees money and power as nothing more than a means to achieve love, and the most oppressive romanticist.

Fitzgerald saw ‘great intellect’ as a contradictory thing.

I thought that an intellectual was someone who could hold two conflicting viewpoints at the same time and draw a systematic plan to achieve an impossible dream.

‘The Great Gatsby’ was the essence of Fitzgerald’s thoughts.

It was difficult to explain this in words other than a novel, so in the end, there was only one thing that anyone who read the book could say.

“Be sure to read it! Because it’s really fun!”

“Okay, okay.”

So the fantasy about The Great Gatsby gradually grows.

The first day of official publication in the Empire.

“Ugh! Lord, get in line! Don’t push, stay calm and maintain order!”

“I, too, am going to read The Great Gatsby!”

The Great Gatsby breaks the initial sales record of ‘Homer’ by a long way.

We set a record that will never be broken.

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“… Don Quixote Part 2 surpassed initial sales in the first week? that is… Does it work?”

“That’s right. Master.”

“Huh… .”