Gatsby is the correct answer. But we won’t deduct points for Moby Dick.https://twitter.com/xan_desanctis/status/1126149192555143168 …
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When Americans consume virtually all storytelling media—even including sports—they do so through a Moby Dick lens. But when Americans *act out their own storytelling,* they do so through a Great Gatsby lens.
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Thus both are essential to understanding America, but Gatsby is more revealing of Americans.
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That’s a solid argument. Could argue Huck Finn, Sister Carrie, or Sound and the Fury as the quintessential American one as well.
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Huck finn is right up there
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both are trash books and only Gatsby is worth reading because it's so short
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well, it is fiction
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I don’t think an English author can be credited with the Great American Novel
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I want to disagree but I don't actually
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