My Literature teacher for my last year of school hated Gatsby.
I ask him why and he says that "Fitzgerald isnt a creative writer because he wrote purely from his friends and life experiences."
I try to refute it and get shut down because as he puts it "I am right".
How can I learn more about literature apart from purely reading? Are Literature Classes even really that useful?
>>9135829
>Are Literature Classes even really that useful?
If you have an instructor who is actually worth a shit, yeah.
No classes are that useful and putting in more than the bare minimum needed to pass is a waste of your time and consciousness unless perhaps your end goal is to become part of the academic machine.
>>9135829
Hemingway said the same thing about Joyce because Stephen Dedalus was based on himself