#scott fitzgerald

[socoolinmypajamas]

Every chapter in Reverse 1999 is based on a book title:

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald

Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien by Samuel Beckett

El Oro de los Tigres by Jorge Luis Borges

And I want to point out that Tender is the Night is a story based on the author's tumultuous relationship with his wife who, btw, looked A LOT like a certain someone:

[animentality]

Was reading up on the homoeroticism between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby and remembered several things. First off, that Nick was implied to have had sex with a feminine man at an orgy. Second, that Jordan Baker is described as a masculine and free spirited kind of woman, one who pursues sports and competition, the way women were not typically allowed to do.

And third, that Fitzgerald originally had a passage about Nick being "amorously pursued" by a former male acquaintance, but deleted it.

So.

Nick was very gay/bisexual.

And then I went further into that rabbit hole and found out that Fitzgerald's wife thought he was gay and claimed he had an affair with Ernest Hemingway. And also that he flirted with men and described himself as "half feminine."

Which was wild to find out, btw. They didn't teach me that in ap lit.

[arylleth]

Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

[besotted-with-austen]

Jay Gatsby: why would Daisy stay with that horrid excuse for a husband? We are in love and he is in the middle of our romance, he should make himself scarce! That's how the story goes, right? The poor boy starts from zero, he does a few illegal deeds to climb the social ladder, he becomes a prince, he gets the princess with the castle and they live happily ever after! The End!

Readers: sorry, what was that in the middle that you said?

Jay Gatsby: the boy becomes a prince!

Readers: the other thing?

Jay Gatsby: he gets the princess and the castle!

Readers: no, the other-hey, you did hear what he said, right?

Nick Carraway: *heart-eyes* he thinks he is a prince in a fairytale! Look at him, he kept an innocent soul even after seeing the cruelest parts of our society with his own eyes!

Readers:

Nick Carraway: *dreamy sigh* what a miracle he is! Pity that he is deluding himself about Daisy!

Readers: he is the one deluding himself?!

[rosstrytobe]

LOKIUS IN THE '20S

[kcuf-ad]

Imagine being this man for a moment.

Some random white man opened your door for no reason, closes it, and then walks in, sits on your damn floor saying "Excuse me." after thinking the entire building his new place for the Guild and then starts laughing at the show you are watching.

That must have been so weird.

[berrimoone]

Rereading Gatsby! (Cause I’ve been listening to the musical nooooonstop :) )

Took it as an opportunity to try out some new texture brushes. I guess this is loosely how I saw them back in like… 2015 when I read it in English Lit haha.

But in order we got: Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, and Tom! :D

👁️👁️

[philosophors]

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (April 8, 1914)

T. S. Elliot, The Wasteland

Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[the-soulwhispers]

Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[logophilist1982]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[bookworm6]

[editfandom]

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Midnight in Paris, 2011

[tommyxgrace-always]

Nolan to Murphy:

Never thought a Scott Fitzgerald quote would suit these two so much!!

[besotted-with-austen]

Tom Buchanan: Daisy, are you really sure you want to leave me? Think about our marriage-are all the years we passed together are worth nothing to you?

Daisy Buchanan: you cheated on me constantly since we went on our honeymoon!

Tom Buchanan: *patiently* but other than that, was I not a good husband all these years? Did you not love me even once?

Jay Gatsby: *sneering* now you bring out that card? It is too late for that! And Daisy never loved you anyway-

Daisy Buchanan: no, he's got a point

Jay Gatsby: say what now?

[bl4ckst4rrr]

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