#scott fitzgerald

[redamancy6]

[unleashed-imagination]

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[animentality]

Was reading up on the homoeroticism between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby and remembered several things. First off, that Nick was implied to have had sex with a feminine man at an orgy. Second, that Jordan Baker is described as a masculine and free spirited kind of woman, one who pursues sports and competition, the way women were not typically allowed to do.

And third, that Fitzgerald originally had a passage about Nick being "amorously pursued" by a former male acquaintance, but deleted it.

So.

Nick was very gay/bisexual.

And then I went further into that rabbit hole and found out that Fitzgerald's wife thought he was gay and claimed he had an affair with Ernest Hemingway. And also that he flirted with men and described himself as "half feminine."

Which was wild to find out, btw. They didn't teach me that in ap lit.

[oliviaalexandraamores]

Francis Cugat, Celestial Eyes (1924)

[socoolinmypajamas]

Every chapter in Reverse 1999 is based on a book title:

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald

Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien by Samuel Beckett

El Oro de los Tigres by Jorge Luis Borges

And I want to point out that Tender is the Night is a story based on the author's tumultuous relationship with his wife who, btw, looked A LOT like a certain someone:

[onlytiktoks]

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[besotted-with-austen]

Daisy Buchanan: *at her breaking point*

Jay Gatsby: *at his breaking point*

Tom Buchanan: *annoyed by the whole mess*

Jordan Baker: *both intrigued and weirded out by the whole mess*

Nick Carraway:

Nick Carraway: I-I just remembered that today is my birthday.

[kotofeich226]

Mia Farrow and Robert Redford on the set of The Great Gatsby, 1974