This reading had me wondering how Fitzgerald could be so prescient with presenting some of the most appalling and repulsive aspects of old wealth and the cluelessness of the nouveau riche. This past reading I did not notice all of the intriguing colors-the green of Daisy’s dock and all the differing shades of blue-and their symbolism set against the decayed American dream. Scott Fitzgerald made on the smug and malicious characters of three of the main characters-Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker-and on the pious naïveté of the narrator Nick Carraway. I had not read this touchstone novel of the early 20th century for more than five years, and this time, my attentions kept returning to the exquisitely well-crafted and perceptive comments F. I picked up The Great Gatsby about a week ago, the first reread of the early summer. I am a left coast native and writer my working life began after studying at San Francisco State University I have been an office worker and a labor organizer longtime freelance writer covering books and labor and assorted cultural and political issues.
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