Why is this book considered controversial? Is it because

>>8834937
Because the late Fitzgerald transcends contemporary thinking. And the fact that the editor ruined this title, makes it controversial in it's own right.

>>8834937
the mc is gay

>>8834948
How?
>>8834970
That makes sense. Still, he had a thing for Baker.

>>8834937
it isn't considered controversial at all

>>8834977
Fitzgerald didn't publish Gatsby until 1925, by then he had already published some of his best work.

Then an editor comes along and says "this is what you need to add to make this novel work." Fitzgerald is a great author, but Gatsby was cringy and clearly forced by the publishing house into the monstrosity it eventually became.

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>>8834948
>it's

>>8835046
;)

>>8834977
>That makes sense. Still, he had a thing for Baker.
Not really, he was just going through the motions with her. He bangs the painter guy the first night they meet.

>>8835097
>“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”
>She didn’t answer. Angry, and HALF IN LOVE WITH HER, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Yeah, looking back on it he fucked the painter. At first I thought they were both just riding out their hangover together by looking at paintings but fucking makes more sense.

>>8835124
It makes sense of his relationship with Tom too, everytime they're talking there's a sort of tension there.

>>8835138
Of course there's tension, Nick's helping Tom's wife cheat on him, and Nick hates him.

But what if they fucked at Yale