When we were assigned that book in high school I barreled through it in one sitting and I'll still defend it to the hatershttps://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1366068173796216833 …
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It has momentum, everything that happens sets up another thing right away Gatsby's downfall has already begun at the opening of the novel and it just keeps accelerating with every page
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the recent movie made the parties look like big, fun, extravagant affairs, which was never the impression I got from the book
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I always think of it as how much a movie like The Social Network would drag if it were being made in the future where they saw the 2000s as a "period setting" and they wanted to wallow in the "authentic aesthetic" of 2004 and give us a window into "vanished techbro subculture"
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The big one for me was how it was taught. For us, we spent the entire unit on the book (from the beginning) talking about color symbolism and avoiding any other discussion of the text. When I read it through on my own, I really liked it/completely different experience.
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My son was in a HS production of it that hit home like a gut punch. I think the advantage of low-budget stage adaptations is that they can’t do the spectacle so they actually tell the story, and it’s a brutal story.
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