You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery....

“ You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. ”

Azar Nafisi

From : Reading Lolita in Tehran