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The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

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Re: The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

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Do you think there might have been a reason why I wrote that way? Hint: this question is easy if you passed high school English.

Ah. I’ve never read it, but if it’s really as bad as your example then I’ll make sure to avoid it.

It’s really not. But my suggestion is read some of his journalism (eg “A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again” or “Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all”) or his first novel “Broom of the system” and if you like that, you’ll probably like “Infinite Jest”).

He’s also written some really thoughtful literary criticism if you like that sort of thing (“Fictional futures and the conspicuously young” is a good example).

Re: The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

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The show itself was pretty good too.

My favorite scene in the show was two kids talking about Baltimore. Don't you ever just want to get out? Get out of what?

In one of the first seasons there was a kid that was a witness to a murder.

He got out of the city and was living with relatives in the countryside, he was safe.

I didn't understand why, but he came back to Baltimore and ended up getting killed. He could have just stayed where he was and lived out his life in peace.

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