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thisrevolutionwillbeliterary:
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thegreatgeiszler:
Nick Carraway is queer. Good bye.
Pretty sure Nick fucks a dude from that awful party at the beginning of the book. Literally the only way that scene makes sense.
So yes. Nick Carraway is totally queer.Ā
I love readings of this book that reject the white hetero-ness that people think has to be canon.
Nickās queer reading makes so much sense if you think about how he rejects the majority of West Egg (or whatever egg it is) but still holds Gatsby up on a pedestal. He calls everyone there selfish but thinks Gatsby (who Iāll argue is still rather selfish) represents this amazing sense of hope and perseverance.Ā
Another reading I love the TGG is that GatsbyĀ was black. Those articles really say it all, so I wonāt go into it.
The āGatsby is Blackā reading isĀ so damn good and makes the entire book so much more interesting.Ā Along with Queer!Nick, they make the book a far more enriching read.Ā
Like, the Great Gatsby is a book about classism and the unattainability of the American Dream for the marginalized and the disillusionment of the young in the years just before the great depression.
Reading all the characters as white straight people misses a huge opportunity to explore those themes within a wider and more meaningful context.Ā
