"Intermediate" Gatsby?

Seriously??!! A new "Intermediate" Great Gatsby? How much less can we expect from our education system? How can we appreciate the poetry of writer's word choices if words are to be dumbed down to an expressionless style?

Roger Ebert writes: "There is no purpose in "reading" The Great Gatsby unless you actually read it. Fitzgerald's novel is not about a story. It is about how the story is told. Its poetry, its message, its evocation of Gatsby's lost American dream, is expressed in Fitzgerald's style--in the precise words he choose to write what some consider the great American novel. Unless you have read them, you have not read the book at all. You have been imprisoned in an educational system that cheats and insults you by inflicting a barbaric dumbing-down process. You are left with the impression of having read a book, and may never feel you need return for a closer look."

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