ATIVIDADE PRÁTICA DA LÍNGUA INGLESA II


Read the following book review and answer the question.

The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel, a book that offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is an American classic and a wonderfully evocative work. Like much of Fitzgerald’s prose, it is neat and well crafted. Fitzgerald seems to have had a brilliant understanding of lives that are corrupted by greed and incredibly sad and unfulfilled. The novel is a product of its generation with one of American literature’s most powerful characters in the figure of Jay Gatsby, who is urbane and world-weary. Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love.

                          (Adapted from: The Great Gatsby Review. Source: Accessed on: 14 jul. 2015.)

Based on the review, it is correct to assert that: 




  • the novel is poorly written and shows the lack of writing skills of its author. 

  • the novel portrays a number of powerful characters, except for Jay Gatsby.

  • The Great Gatsby is unlike most of Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.

  • The Great Gatsby is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s minor works of prose. 

  • the book depicts the lifestyle of newly wealthy Americans in the 1920s.