i m going to talk about this at the end of the show. it s about love lost. the poor kid can t marry the rich girl. we get that. it s about self-creation, about america. why does it keep coming back as a movie, first question? oh, i think because those things will never go away. i mean, we re constantly reinventing ourselves individually and as a nation this is the great sort of american project that we re embarked on and, as you said, this novel is the great suma of so many principles that drive up, the psychological drives, the financial drives. this one arrives right after our latest almost depression. so it has all sorts of contemporary residences, just even in terms of the economic context. so i just think it does contain just so many of the elements of the american character. let me ask you about this leo dicaprio.
let me finish tonight with this. there s a reason the great gatsby written nine decades ago is at the top of the bestseller s list. it s about two great themes, one is love, of course, in this case, the love of a poor boy for a rich girl. the other thing is self-creation, we re a self-created country. jay gatsby put together his name, bootlegs, hope, and decided to trade it in for the girl he couldn t afford when he was another poor soldier heading off to war. gatsby was a dreamer, a great one, a man of money but old money, his dream girl would actually value and so he beat on against the current, to the best american story we have and so we ourselves beat on hoping that
let me finish tonight with this. there s a reason the great gatsby written nine decades ago is back at the top seller s list and a reason it s so many people s favorite novel and since they read in high school. two great themes. love, of course, the love of a poor boy for a rich girl. the other thing unique for america is self-creation. we re a self-created country, why wouldn t be a land of self-created people. gatsby put together his name from bootlegging and other enterprises and gave it all up for a girl he couldn t hope to have when he was a soldier going off to war. he was a dreamer and hoped to not just be man of money but old me on the kind daisy, his dream girl valued and it s the best
i want to talk about one thing. people forced to read it in high school and every year ever since. about lost love and the poor kid can t marry the rich girl, we get that. also about self-creation. why does it keep coming back as a movie, first question? because those things will never go away. we re constantly reinventing ourselves individually and as a nation. this is the great project we re embarked on and this is the great suma that affects us. psychological drives and financial drives. this one arrives after our latest almost depression and hat residences in terms of the economic context. it does contain just so many of the elements of the american characte
let me finish tonight with this. there s a reason the great gatsby written nine decades ago is at the top of the bestseller s list. it s about two great themes, one is love, of course, in this case, the love of a poor boy for a rich girl. the other thing is self-creation, we re a self-created country. jay gatsby put together his name, bootlegs, hope, and decided to trade it in for the girl he couldn t afford when he was another poor soldier heading off to war. gchl atsby was a dreamer, a great one, a man of money but old money, his dream girl would actually value and so he beat on against the current, to the best american story we have and so we