Clearly Fitzgerald is being flippant here, but it is easy to see Nick in this sentence. I laugh every time I read Virginians and Negroes (light or dark). However when he felt he was cracking up, he hated most everyone in equal measure: “In these latter days I couldn’t stand the sight of Celts, English, Politicians, Strangers, Virginians, Negroes (light or dark), Hunting People, or retail clerks, and middlemen in general, all writers (I avoided writers carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.” “Like most midwesterners, I have never had any but the vaguest race prejudices” he writes.
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In Fitzgerald’s essay series “The Crack Up,” he speaks of his own egalitarian impulses. Scott Fitzgerald no doubt saw a great deal of himself in Nick. just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”-felt like the book’s exception.į. But Nick Carraway, good-hearted, thoughtful Nick, who starts the book with his father’s generous admonishment-“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone. So when the cruel, violent bully Tom Buchanan declares The Rise of the Coloured Empires a prophetic book that admonishes whites to “watch out or these other races will have control of things,” or when Daisy Buchanan refers to her “white girlhood,” or when Nick’s almost-girlfriend, the lying tennis player Jordan Baker, announces that “we are all white here” during one of the most intense scenes of the novel, I smart from these comments, feel pushed away. And it is especially painful when the joker is a character you admire. But still it hurts to find yourself set outside, the butt of the joke. People have limitations that are difficult to stomach sometimes. I don’t expect or even want to be preached to by characters that know all, do and think all the right things, and never make crucial mistakes.
I know that the job of literature is to showcase the lives of characters, with all their perplexing perversities, petty shortsightednesses, and bad judgements. “However swept up and away I may be, I can’t help but fear that the door of the book will suddenly close in my face by excluding or demeaning people of color, women, the poor.” What surprise lurks for you (disgusting personal habit, unforgivable character flaw) that you could not predict and have had no time to discover for yourself? Falling into the world of a classic book (or even a contemporary one) gives me that loving feeling, both exhilarated and immediately wary. You wonder what you have missed mid-swoon. At first that danger is part of the giddy wonder of it, but soon you find yourself on your guard.
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Your skin becomes effervescent, as if parts of you could twinkle off. Maybe some of you have fallen hard and fast in love, and you know it is a heady and wonderful feeling, vertigo, breathlessness. The writing is not showy or precious but clear, with simple, lyrical declarations like the hardest easy sentences we write or say: Nothing more can be done. And the voice of Nick Carraway, his unfussy intelligence, his elegiac musings, his surprising turns of phrases (“secret griefs of wild, unknown men,” he says on the first page!) hooked me early and completely. Reading Gatsby felt like an initiation into a rich, romantic, sophisticated, adult world that I, a poor, small town, black girl, desperately wanted to know. The romance! I loved the thrill of love, requited or not, and the enigmatic portentous green light, a symbol of the safe harbor that love should be but often isn’t. I was consumed by the glamour of his story and his telling of it: the lingering descriptions of glittering parties and decorated women. Let’s just say Nick’s life was very different from mine.
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Starting from the actual day I turned 16, I worked at a fast food restaurant making less than five dollars an hour, and if I was lucky I spent my free time in front of a television or in the middle of a book. I, on the other hand, lived in lower working-class, rural North Carolina and was one of the first generation of post-integrationist southern black kids. Nick was living in the most exciting city in the world, working at a job where in a few short years he might be making a fortune, and spending his evenings hobnobbing with his rich and connected relatives. Like so many of us, I first read The Great Gatsby when I was a 16-year-old high school kid and Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was the ripe old age of 29-about-to-turn-30 (of course, he still is). The books we love don’t always love us back.
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