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((little reminder that "heterosexual" isn't the standard or should be the assumed sexuality when one doesn't know))
Heh, excuse me but going to spend the night in a house of a stranger man, without his wife, the guy touches a fallic object and makes sure that you see that, and sleeping in the same bed isn't the most heterosexual thing to do.
It is hinted that Nick is Bi or homosexual. As you said "Read more history and you'll discover this for yourself."
Also the hits and setting of the novel shows it:
1. Jordan is described as a 'fit' woman, something we ofter see more appeling to man, rather than woman, (even more in that age!)
2. Again, Nick remarks says everything. He is fixated in how masculine Tom is, how femenine but handsome McKnee is, how much he founds Gatsby to be a dashing man. And YES, we men, can find attractive other men, but not in the same way. Heterosexual men find attractive another man in a way of wanting to resemble them, or admire the work they put in their body image. Gay and Bisexual men, find attractive the other man's body because, we find it desirable, something seductive! and yes we also something want to resemble them.
All is how we express the attraction.
And Mr. Carraway? Oh! it's definitely the second.
3. Setting: The great Gatsby it's supposedly about how 'the american dream' is nothing but that, a dream. Great idea, but badly executed, but we are here because we want to know is Nick likes dicks or nay, not if the book it's good or bad.
Okey, so here we go again. The book is in short about decadence.
Remember what people used to think fo gay people at that time? ding, diNG! DING! YES, decadence.
Nick althoght is supposed to be a good thing in a decadent surranding, is -again, at that time, people just to think that, Not that good, he also had his decadence. Which is? Homosexuality. Or maybe how decadent the situation was that even a homosexual was the most normal guy and rightful person in that group. (Although, i dont think that he is decadent, so for me is the good guy and just got stuck in a bad situation.) Or maybe Fitzgerald had an homosexual friend, that really appreciated and cherished, and he just portrayed him in the book.
But again, am just trying to give an interpretation of why Fitzgerald, would wrote a homosexual character.
But if Nick was gay or bi? Without a doubt.
Heh, forgot to mention that: Please, excuse me if i butchered you tongue! English as you see is not my first language! and it's 3:36am in the morning so... Sorry!
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((little reminder that "heterosexual" isn't the standard or should be the assumed sexuality when one doesn't know))
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Now, if a man was saying the same exact stuff to a woman, there would be no doubt it was romantic/sexual in nature. So why does the connotation of the words/actions change when it is two men or two women?
And what history should we read about? Ancient Greece? Renaissance/Enlightenment era Europe? Early American politics? Queer people have existed since the beginning of humanity, and it is not far-fetched to read about them in novels, especially considering Fitzgerald's own actions toward other men.
And what history should we read about? Ancient Greece? Renaissance/Enlightenment era Europe? Early American politics? Queer people have existed since the beginning of humanity, and it is not far-fetched to read about them in novels, especially considering Fitzgerald's own actions toward other men.
Heh, excuse me but going to spend the night in a house of a stranger man, without his wife, the guy touches a fallic object and makes sure that you see that, and sleeping in the same bed isn't the most heterosexual thing to do.It is hinted that Nick is Bi or homosexual. As you said "Read more history and you'll discover this for yourself."
Also the hits and setting of the novel shows it:
1. Jordan is described as a 'fit' woman, something we ofter see more appeling to man, rather than woman, (even more in that age!)
2. Again, Nick remarks says everything. He is fixated in how masculine Tom is, how femenine but handsome McKnee is, how much he founds Gatsby to be a dashing man. And YES, we men, can find attractive other men, but not in the same way. Heterosexual men find attractive another man in a way of wanting to resemble them, or admire the work they put in their body image. Gay and Bisexual men, find attractive the other man's body because, we find it desirable, something seductive! and yes we also something want to resemble them.
All is how we express the attraction.
And Mr. Carraway? Oh! it's definitely the second.
3. Setting: The great Gatsby it's supposedly about how 'the american dream' is nothing but that, a dream. Great idea, but badly executed, but we are here because we want to know is Nick likes dicks or nay, not if the book it's good or bad.
Okey, so here we go again. The book is in short about decadence.
Remember what people used to think fo gay people at that time? ding, diNG! DING! YES, decadence.
Nick althoght is supposed to be a good thing in a decadent surranding, is -again, at that time, people just to think that, Not that good, he also had his decadence. Which is? Homosexuality. Or maybe how decadent the situation was that even a homosexual was the most normal guy and rightful person in that group. (Although, i dont think that he is decadent, so for me is the good guy and just got stuck in a bad situation.) Or maybe Fitzgerald had an homosexual friend, that really appreciated and cherished, and he just portrayed him in the book.
But again, am just trying to give an interpretation of why Fitzgerald, would wrote a homosexual character.
But if Nick was gay or bi? Without a doubt.
Heh, forgot to mention that: Please, excuse me if i butchered you tongue! English as you see is not my first language! and it's 3:36am in the morning so... Sorry!
