#Jay gatsby

[teenytinysandwiches]

Jay Gatsby doing the Jeremy Jordan nose touchy thing.

[nick-carra-gay-for-gatsby]

*giving jay forehead kisses and talking to him like he's a dog* who's the world's prettiest princess? you are! yes you are! you're the world's prettiest princess!

[vessels-for-good-intent]

@more-than-tender-curiosity @vehiculartheyslaughter @yourlocalfriendlyhybird6

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

There’s nothing better than thinking of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby’s different accents slipping out at the oddest times. Nick is new to New York so he’s prone to slipping more than Jay Gatsby but he makes a commendable effort to hide it when he moves to New York and it only slips when he’s exhausted or emotional. Jay Gatsby’s would probably only slip if he was drunk. But not tipsy, I’m talking like ‘I’m gonna forget this in the morning’ drunk.

I am of the opinion that regardless of the time period, Jay speaks with a pretty startling trans-atlantic accent that he gained partially On Purpose from Oxford and partially because he spends a lot of time with Meyer on Broadway with the actors of the shows he’s producing (as a denizen of Broadway). He thinks it makes him sound Old Money. Vaguely European. Absurd Formality. That sort of thing.

It’s not so immediately startling in canon era, but he still does it in any of my modern aus, which I imagine is jarring for anyone who meets him. Except for nick of course who’s like 🥺🥺🥺 Hes so Quirky And Misunderstood ♥️♥️♥️

It’s fucking ridiculous.

And there are times where Jay will slip up a little. Say behg instead of bag. Or ope instead of Oh Dear. And he prays nobody notices.

Except.

Nick���knows where the Off button is.

He can get Jay to not only drop the fucking façade but blurt out just about any heinous curse I’m sure was made available to him in the fishing camps or aboard the Tuolomee or in the trenches.

And that’s all I’m going to say about that. Little secret between neighbors.

As for Nick, I think his family is mostly older and he spent more time with them than he really wants to think about, so even if the younger folks don’t tend to carry such a strong accent as the earlier generations, he still sounds like a Fargo extra. And he has no idea.

Not a fucking clue. Even the New Haven cunts and his fellow troops neglected to mention it to him.

So imagine nick’s stress when he arrives in New York and people start snickering with the first “You betcha”. “Oh no yah fer sher” gets him some strange looks. He asks for a bag at the grocery store and the clerk snickers and asks “a behg?” And nicks like “yah” and the clerk’s like “that’s five cents per bag” and nick says “oh no that’s too spendy but thanks” and rushes out before he can incriminate himself as Thee Midwesterner any further. Making sure, of course, to “lemme just sneak right past ya real quick” at the person who’d been waiting behind him in line.

It’s a harrowing experience for everyone involved. And I like to picture Chester McKee teaching Nick how to New York properly. For hours and hours and hours…

[vincent-is-vintage]

Gatsby and Daisy, still needing some color

[camrydealership]

idk if ppl watch edits on here but it got suppressed on tiktok so oh well

[siennabestylin]

I love her and completely understand why she stayed with Tom. She's used to a certain lifestyle and Gatsby wanted to run away with her without knowing her personality, hobbies, dreams, hopes, etc (AND MAKE HER LEAVE HER DAUGHTER) Like Gatsby was tragic but he was in love with the idea of the young teen he had a fling with, not a grown woman.

“I wish we had more complicated characters in book!”

YALL COULDN’T EVEN HANDLE HER‼️

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[lt-sparrow]

came to me in a dream

[daiwild]

a little comic doodle abt the experience i had while watching The Great Gatsby musical

[mayashortnsweetbway]

Jeremy’s Final performance as Gatsby + Speech🥺❤️💚✨🥰❇️.

Thank you for being the perfect Gatsby, Old Sport! ❤️

Reblog credit:

@afireformyheart

Thank you for everything as Gatsby ♥️

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

Is the Gatsby musical an accurate retelling of the original novel? No.

Does it romanticize the fuck out of Gatsby and Daisy? Yes.

Is the idea of the green light being a metaphor for romantic love entirely missing the point? Yes.

Is it a really, really fun time with gorgeous music, beautiful visuals, and a wildly talented cast? You're goddamn right

[nation-wide-is-bi-your-side]

gay people will say anything but i love you. the fuck do you mean “they’re a rotten crowd. you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

[iamnotshazam]

there is something deeply wrong with nick carraway in gatsby. motherfucker has been disassocating probably since the end of the war. he watches a marriage almost implode in front of him and in the stunned silence afterwards tells the awful husband, "oh yeah i just remembered today's my birthday"

i dont think casual and high school level discussions focus on how deeply weird nick must be in person and how that affects scenes? i vaguely remember analyses usually focusing on daisy and tom and gatsby but they all use nick as a barely functioning soundboard for horrible behavior and when he doesn't say anything are probably thinking "well nick seems so chill he would stop me if this was Truly Weird" and nick is meanwhile staring off into the distance thinking about what he ate last tuesday and that green eyed bilboard

edit: right and the accident literally happens next page so the weirdness of nick is probably skipped over by most readers

[vulprits]

something something that night he told me everything

[more-than-tender-curiosity]