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Just saw a group argue that 'The Great Gatsby' is a simple love story
At the library in Cedar Rapids, a book club was discussing the novel and several people kept calling it a romance about Gatsby and Daisy. I think that misses the whole point about class and the American Dream, which Fitzgerald makes clear. Do you think some classics get boiled down to one wrong idea over time?
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bettyperry7mo ago
Sure, next they'll say Moby Dick is just a book about a guy who really hates a whale. Boiling Gatsby down to a love story is like calling a car crash a fender bender. You miss the whole show about new money, old money, and that green light being a giant metaphor for a broken dream. It's the literary version of only eating the sprinkles off the cupcake.
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wendy_ross717mo ago
Exactly, it's like they read the back cover and called it a day. The real story is in all the cracks between the big plot points. You have to sit with the quiet parts to get the full picture.
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parkermorgan6mo ago
Watch people do this with real life too, missing the quiet parts @wendy_ross71.
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