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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(The thing where Daisy falls in love with Gatsby's shirts and just completely loses it and almost has an orgasm at how much fine clothing he owns is something played in the book as surreal, a sign she is deeply unwell And most adapters just completely share her attitude)
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It's one of the things that teenage me just.... cannot fathom. I've had people try to explain it to me as a deeply romantic moment but it just makes me head tilt.
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I've never seen an adaptation but the book is highly memorable.
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Fitzgerald’s “Echoes of the Jazz Age” essay, written all of two years after the Crash, nearly encapsulates his own attitude toward the era, namely: Good. Fucking. Riddance.
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“It was borrowed time anyhow–the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of grand dukes and the casualness of chorus girls.”
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