Hey /lit/, is it normal that I can't stand some of the writing

>>7625937
pleb af

I couldn't stand how alpha, successful, racially-aware Tom was the "bad guy" and Gatsby the effeminate beta criminal was the "good guy." Fitzgerald could turn a sentence, though. Only in high school curricula as a lazy means of 'teaching' symbolism.

>>7625937
Don't interpret this as me saying The Great Gatsby is bad, but if The Great Gatsby is her favorite book, then she probably doesn't have much to say about it herself.

>>7625937

it's an okay book. very well written, and Nick Carraway is well developed and you should read for him at least. A bit forced otherwise

>>7625956
She's probably way better at reading/writing than I am actually. I mean I read but she reads a LOT

>>7625987

most women read a "LOT".

but most women also read YA and romance fiction. might as well not be reading.

>>7625987
what else does she read

anything non-reddit tier?

>>7625992
having said that it seems most men read crime genre fiction, or don't read at all

>>7625993
Yes actually, she despises YA as much as I do. She typically enjoys the more straight-forward and conventional classics, nothing too experimental but still much better than the general populace

>>7625997
Yeah, that's pretty much true. Clive Cussler is Harlequin Romance for middle aged men.

>>7626016
gatsby isn't really that much better than YA desu, anon.
indeed the fact you're struggling with such entry-level literature is rather concerning.
pray tell what 'classics' does your gf enjoy, vonnegut?

>>7626024
I never said I was having trouble with it, just not enjoying it

And I'd have to ask her, I don't know off hand

>>7625937
spoilers sort of

the attempt is to put you in the mindset of the well off. Look at it this way: the book assumes you're a nobody and puts you in the shoes of a nobody and tells you about a great man that was an illusion which is also you, the parallel of gatsby to the reader and the main character is that self worth is the value of your integrity and little else which is why women flock to this book. The writing style reflects all of this by moving through the hidden narratives of the women who parallel themselves (cheating whore vs. rich cheating whore) so the banter of conversation is trying to wiggle a carrot in front of you: do you value yourself, do you value integrity, or are you a fake piece of shit thats trying to sound better than you are just like the low lifes who parade around in jewels and fur jerking each other off, f. scott fitzgerald is a genius, you're not, enjoy the book

>>7626070
Well worded anon, I'll try again with this in mind

>>7625955
>abusive, successful, racist Tom
Fixed that for you.

>>7626099
>racist
At least he wasn't cold.

>>7625955

>>7626099

should note though that tom and gatsby aren't good or bad. both are people who live lies and falsely defend their lies, for both characters when confronted with "truths" they can't handle it and either twist it until its what they can accept or change it. there is no good or bad here even though the film tried to paint tom as a sneaky murderer and gatsby died with hope but the moral is the same in the human experience from the book in that cementing your self worth around another person will always destroy you

Your girlfriend has better taste than you. Shame it couldn't be the same for her taste in men.

>>7626120
>>7626070

Great interpretation

>>7625955
Not even instigating anything, it must be difficult as fuck seeing anything other than contempt for most other humans as weakness.

>>7625937
A lot of the writing in the book would be shot down and ridiculed as both awkward and campy, were it not for its being Approved.

>fags will not admit this

>>7625937
I was slightly put off by the writing style in this too, at times it just felt needlessly over-descriptive to me. Certain paragraphs seemed a bit flowery and unnecessary to me, and I didn't see what actual substance they added to the novel except to decorate it with a bit of prose here and there. Overall I thought the book was pretty good though, not one of my favourites by any means, but enjoyable nonetheless.

That said, I am a pleb so I daresay I probably missed something.

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>>7625937
>"I was rather literary in college - one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' - and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."

The only quote from that book worth remembering, if that. Overall a very forgettable work that I forced myself to finish, since it was moving too slow with no character building going on to justify it.
The only reason this book is popular is because its very american, and thus americans like it.

>>7627002
I'm very American. Nobody likes me.

>>7626024
>gatsby isn't really that much better than YA desu, anon

Is this whole board based on memes or something?

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the book is the only adaptation to understand the book.

Come at me.