Ze Great Gatsby (2/3)

Criticize me (without hate) all you want, but "Ze Great Gatsby" sounded a lot better then "Read Great Gatsby" or "Book Great Gatsby" (I hate short titles). I actually considered "Ye Olde Great Gatsby," but I was able to contain myself. By the way, if you're not a newcomer, I hope you enjoy the background change! Food, such as chocolate, is always a panacea to me (emotionally. Physically it seems to be destroying my health...)

Some of you might think this light is pretty. So does Gatsby.

I've managed to go past only comprehending what's the ink and what's the paper, which is a good start. When I read the first chapter probably the fifteenth time, I started to actually understand the content. I think I just had to keep telling myself, "Focus! Focus! Words! Chocolate...Focus!" Before, when I had only read the first chapter, I thought the "great" Gatsby would be a very secretive, mysterious, wondrous, amazing character that seemed to be one of the "greatest" people on Earth. Well, that wasn't really the case. SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE. John Green actually did a video for his crash courses debating whether or not Gatsby was actually "great" after all. Besides all of the deep analytical things that doesn't make Gatsby great, one thing that sort of creeped me out about Gatsby. There were many rumors about how he did numerous illegal things, including murder. That didn't creep me out - I think rumors are stupid. But what did creep me out was the fact that Gatsby had bought his fancy mansion and held parties every week so that he can lure his former girlfriend to reuniting with him. That woman, already married to another man, lives near him. Everyday Gatsby stares out the window and stares at a green light, which is his ex-girlfriend's house. The woman isn't aware of this at first, so he sort of seemed like a stalker to me. Later, he confront his ex and tells her, "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay...You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock" (Fitzgerald 92). The funny thing is, green is the color of spring, and spring is usually symbolic for rebirth. Gatsby stares at the green light every day, wanting a new life with his former lover along with rebirth. It seems to readers, though, that Gatsby is simply stuck in the past. The appropriate "rebirth" for Gatsby could have been giving up the desire for wealth, forgetting about his married ex, and leading an honest life instead of trying to create love affairs.

So apparently you can heal sore throats by eating marshmallows. You're welcome for giving you an excuse to stuff your face with marshmallows.