Like, beat this ending: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Is it about the 1920s or the 2020s? BOTH, fuckers! It's about how we never climb out of the hole that capitalism makes.
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agreed. i loved teaching it for all of its complexity and the critiques on US society that we could discuss. it encompassed SO much for us to unpack.
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I feel like Fitzgerald is one of few revered white American writers who is very honest about how grotesque his world was
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I will always love the scene where Owl Eyes is impressed that Gatsby owns real books, not fake ones for show, but Nick notices that the pages are still uncut. Writers with the dictum "show, don't tell" should aspire to such an achievement.
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I had no clue what was going on in that book when I read it in high school. I read it again a few years ago and boy does it wallop society and capitalism.
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100%. I hated reading it in high school, but after I picked it up decades later it blew me away. It’s brilliant and horrifying.
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