On this date in 1896, F Scott Fitzgerald was born. What he wrote in the 1920s is still relevant today. Even though his books were set in his day, he wrote about the American Dream and leading a life of waste and excess. The Great Gatsby has always been one of my favorite books and it never loses its appeal, no matter how many times I have read it. I always loved Nick Carraway; the way he befriended Gatsby not because of what Gatsby could do for him, but because he recognized the loneliness and regret in a man who seemed to have it all. Nick is really the one who had it all, yet no one actually acknowledges it.

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” — Nick Carraway

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty.” –Nick Carraway