RedemptionZeni Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Maybe because it was hammered into me as a HS Junior, but I'm rereading it at 30 for a few nights and it's so riddled with cliches and pseudo-impressionism. All of those upper class tropes and stereotypes you see in the world come from Gatsby, and I think anyone can write about how the blinds on the window are talking to him/her and provide vivid imagery and personification of inanimate objects. Not to mention F. Scott Fitzgerald's obsession with clothing and the fashionable styles of his day Sorry, I think F. Scott Fitzgerald gets way too much credit and only because he was one of the first American authors to develop that redundant writing style. Ever since his magnum opus became "The Great American Novel", there have been a bunch of little F. Scott Fitzgerald wannabes running around the film, literature, and cultural scenes. My brain is not fried from having this novel and its dated, pretentious vocabulary hammered into it as a HS student. He is extremely overrated and I don't think anyone ever wants to state the obvious. Just because he captures how you feel during certain moments like when you're pretending to look at an advertisement in a subway car when your seat is front-facing an attractive person's seat, doesn't make him some kind of literary wizard. The Great Gatsby in HS= 7/10, what is this drivel? The Great Gatsby at 30= 6/10, anyone can do it if they're bored enough to write about materialism and capitalism through social climbing, cliched party banter, overly descriptive scenes of New York, and static characters. I know for sure F. Scott Fitzgerald just threw everything he ever witnessed together and strung it together with all these devices and his flowery language in mind. He tried to achieve perfection by using every literary device he could think of and trying to create a transcendental work that would be true of America or any civilization in any age of bustling overindulgence and excess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hey, you’re not dead. neat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Sawdamizer said: Hey, you’re not dead. neat. I'm at University Hospital. I made the liver transplant list because I registered a MELD Score of 43 (they regard all 40+ scores the same), so I'm literally either going to get an offer for a liver or die within a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, RedemptionZeni said: I'm at University Hospital. I made the liver transplant list because I registered a MELD Score of 43 (they regard all 40+ scores the same), so I'm literally either going to get an offer for a liver or die within a few weeks. Jesus... in Philly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 A morning view of downtown Newark from my hospital room, obscured by whoever cleaned the windows while I was sleeping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Ah.. can you choose to not die in Newark? Or like get the transplant in anywhere besides Newark? because.... Newark. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (I agree I hate the great gatsby) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 48 minutes ago, Sawdamizer said: Ah.. can you choose to not die in Newark? Or like get the transplant in anywhere besides Newark? because.... Newark. I know. I miss Charlottesville so much. I wish I had double majored in history in college. I love English, but I have seen all there is to see in literature. History has never failed to enthrall me. Can I get a master's in History despite not majoring in it as an undergrad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 I was at one of the hubs of colonial American history as an undergrad and I never even took the time to visit Monticello. It gnaws at me and shakes my usually dispassionate temperament. What true American am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 It's fallen out of copyright so nobody can stop anyone that wants to make The Great Gatsby a space opera with giant robots. I'm just saying, I am just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Just now, Seight said: It's fallen out of copyright so nobody can stop anyone that wants to make The Great Gatsby a space opera with giant robots. I'm just saying, I am just saying. Daisy does tentacle porn in Egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobdog Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) The Great Gatsby is a master class on the use of symbolism, but other that it's not particularly special. Also love the view. You're moving on up Zeni. Edited April 19, 2021 by scoobdog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I thought it was just ok in high school, haven't read it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I hated the book, and hated the movie even more (the one with Robert Redford, haven't seen the one with Leo DiCaprio). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 On 4/18/2021 at 5:32 AM, RedemptionZeni said: I know. I miss Charlottesville so much. I wish I had double majored in history in college. I love English, but I have seen all there is to see in literature. History has never failed to enthrall me. Can I get a master's in History despite not majoring in it as an undergrad? I don't know if it just depends on the school, but you definitely can. My undergrad was in IT, and for a while I was in a Master's program in psychology (big mistake). One of my computer science professors predictably had his master's in computer science, but his undergrad was economics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 It's been so long I don't have an opinion about it anymore. But regardless of my own opinion I'll always love the fact it played a significant role in Hunter S. Thompson becoming a writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mthor Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 On 4/19/2021 at 9:09 PM, Doom Metal Alchemist said: I don't know if it just depends on the school, but you definitely can. My undergrad was in IT, and for a while I was in a Master's program in psychology (big mistake). One of my computer science professors predictably had his master's in computer science, but his undergrad was economics. My sister got a law degree, and her undergrad was environmental engineering, so there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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