Every American Should Read Gatsby Again

You have to read it again.

If, like most of high school-educated America, you read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in some long ago class under orders from a teacher, you owe it to yourself to revisit this strange American fable -- now that you're wiser for the years, humbled by loss and longing, better able to appreciate the stubborn, absurdly persistent idealism of one of American literature's most mysterious, mythic characters.