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kayinreads 's review for:
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Despite all my attempts to dislike this book, I failed—utterly! This is a novel devoid of any flaws. I, with aching disappointment, must agree with that. This is one of those books that require literary surgery: the separation of art from the artist. This is the kind of book I dream of writing one day. Structurally airtight. Prose so precise it feels like poetry.
Technically this is about the American Dream collapsing under the weight of excess and disillusionment. But, to me, it’s about a soft bisexual Midwestern man catching feelings for his emotionally unavailable, fabulously dressed bootlegging neighbor. You cannot convince me otherwise. HEHE!
Also: Gatsby is Fitzgerald. And Nick Carraway? That’s Hemingway. This whole book is a veiled attempt at fan fiction about himself and Hemingway. If you read The Great Gatsby as anything other than a tragic queer love story...read again!
Technically this is about the American Dream collapsing under the weight of excess and disillusionment. But, to me, it’s about a soft bisexual Midwestern man catching feelings for his emotionally unavailable, fabulously dressed bootlegging neighbor. You cannot convince me otherwise. HEHE!
Also: Gatsby is Fitzgerald. And Nick Carraway? That’s Hemingway. This whole book is a veiled attempt at fan fiction about himself and Hemingway. If you read The Great Gatsby as anything other than a tragic queer love story...read again!