I don't know if that specific example will prove true, but it does seem F Scott is trying to create a new view of some commonly accepted aspects of the 20s.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Women...
As discussed in class today through out the first three chapters the women in the Great Gatsby seem to be dishonest and border line trashy. Most of the Female characters are shown as almost heartless beings drifting around the eggs. There is an sense that women cause a lot of harm through their actions in this section; it is hard to sense if F Scott actually means something by these negative portrayals; perhaps he is using them to expose other rarely mentioned aspects of the roaring 20s. The scene on p. 38 is an example of a rather homoerotic scene in the book which seems bizarre and out of place: could F Scott be trying to tear down the images we have of the 1920s? Replacing the classic ladies men with something completely different..
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I think your somewhat right but i also feel that once we start looking through the book in different theories I think we will start to see comments similar and vastly different to the one you stated above. This is a good leading question into the next few weeks of our studies because it allows us to start to think about the many different kinds of theories we can view this book from. But we must also ask is F Scott really the genius hes made out to be or is all this hubglub made up stuff from people over thinking this book throughout the years?
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