Upon reading the "New Critical" method i just had to think to myself, "Wait...Wha?"
We've already gone over the idea of close reading, and pulling apart texts from Gatsby. Close reading, for me at least, is actually one of the cleaner, purer ways of analyzing readings, why? because we're just reading the words more deeply, as opposed to make accusations about the Author's secret love for proletariat uprisings while they kept their wives in the kitchen. it's really bare-boned, and easy to swallow. The best part of criticizing some parts of Gatsby over again, is that you notice subtle hints about scenes or conversations, (especially repetition of certain weird words) that didn't change the story's meaning, but it did make it deeper than before.
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