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Be honest: have you ever actually read The Great Gatsby?

A topic by wannabegames created Nov 16, 2020 Views: 524 Replies: 22
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Did you? Have you? Will you?

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what's the great gatsby

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It's one of those fortnite dances.

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Isn't he a mucha libra wrestler?

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I have!

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Do you have fond memories of the book?

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I do! The eyes of tj eckelbery, the green light, and the parties

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It's the eyes that always stayed with me, more so than anything else in the book. --Jess

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Nope, but I hav read the wikipedia article about it.

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The Great American Wiki Entry.

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Heh.

Yes

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There are two wolves inside me. One is a massive nerd about stories and books. The other is illiterate. I have not read the Great Gatsby.

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That's just a metaphor for the American Dream, babyyyy

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Several times. It is one of my favorites and helped me get through a tough breakup. 

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i’ve not read it, but i have gathered from tumblr that The Great Gatsby hits someone with his car

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lmao. He sounds like a shitty magician when referred to like that. 

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I did ~ three times

first time to figure out the plot

second time to annotate

third time because my English teacher had me redo annotations

It's funny because we're just finishing this in highschool. I am literally writing my Gatsby final tommorow.

Yes!  My high school English teacher made us read it twice, because he said we didn't read it well enough as a summer reading assignment, so he shifted everything for fall back a month so we could read it AGAIN. I haven't read it since, though...

I (Jazz) love The Great Gatsby. I've read it a few times, and since I was a lit nerd in college, it's one of my favorite touchstones. In fact, I'm a huge fan of Fitzgerald's work in general, but especially of his short fiction. He had a way of building up a glamorous world, and undercutting it at every turn with subtle but lethal satire. TGG is one of my favorite books for his wit and mastery of language - not for the moral of the story.

I am a former English teacher who assigned Gatsby to his sophomores. I love the book! Also this is my first jam! 

I did, and I remember almost nothing of it lolol

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I have read precisely one passage of it, over and over again, a few hundred times in the course of making my game, and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what F. Scott Fitzgerald would have wanted.