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you don.t grow up with a pure view of women living in new york,love is beautiful but it is not pure.
Wouldn't know, personally, then or now.
Anyway, point is that his ethic elevated him every bit as much as it caused his demise.
And I guess what makes Gatsby "great" for me, what makes me look beyond his shady past, and his loud use of money, is his gift for wonder.
Stavros wrote: "And I guess what makes Gatsby "great" for me, what makes me look beyond his shady past, and his loud use of money, is his gift for wonder."
"Gift of wonder" is such a great perception; you're absolutely right.
- Mike
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you don.t grow up with a pure view of women living in new york,love is beautiful but it is not pure.
Wouldn't know, personally, then or now.Anyway, point is that his ethic elevated him every bit as much as it caused his demise.
And I guess what makes Gatsby "great" for me, what makes me look beyond his shady past, and his loud use of money, is his gift for wonder.
Stavros wrote: "And I guess what makes Gatsby "great" for me, what makes me look beyond his shady past, and his loud use of money, is his gift for wonder.""Gift of wonder" is such a great perception; you're absolutely right.
- Mike
Interesting take on this Jonathan; I might have instead interpreted that his destruction and his redemption came from the same thing--his absolutely pure definition of love.
Myself, I saw nothing "small-town" about him (of course I personally assign nothing negative to small-town origins, coming from further out than that personally, and I don't think you are either--it's just a figure of speech). Anyway I think his ideals were not small; they'd carried him through a long back-story and were more grand than anything else. He was stoic--unshakeable. His pure code of love never wavered. Part of the beauty of the tragedy--that what brought him down was worth falling for.