does anyone know of any “scandal” blogs out there with good opinions aka people who hate fitz

stevebuscreaming:

So let me explain this theory for those of you who haven’t heard it before already.

The Great Gatsby is a story of a man that makes his fortune bootlegging and throws countless magnificent parties all in hopes of attracting the attention of his old flame Daisy.

But it’s really a story about insurmountable class barriers. Daisy will never be with Gatsby, no matter how much she claims to love him. No matter how hard Gatsby tries, he will always be stuck on West Egg, only able to admire the ‘green light’ of upper class american romanticism from afar. 

Themes of insurmountable class barriers permeate the entire novel right from some of the famous opening lines:

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

And so here’s the theory: 

Jay Gatsby was black, passing for white: High yellow. 

Lower class vs upper class. Old money vs new money. East Egg vs West Egg. White vs black. Don’t believe me? 

• Early in the novel, Daisy’s beau Tom goes on a full fledged rant about the oncoming threat of the rise of the black race in society
• Another reference to race is made when Nick and Gatsby pass by a limo driven by a white chauffeur with “three modish negroes”
• Numerous references are made to Gatsby’s notably dark skintone in comparison to Daisy’s lighter skintone
• “I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York. That was comprehensible. But young men didn’t— at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn’t— drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.”

Not only was the insurmountable barrier between him and Daisy one of class and upbringing, but also one of race.

What we take for granted as Gatsby’s whiteness is actually a omission of detail rather than a specific indicator that he was white.

From the article Was Gatsby Black?

Thompson adds, “When I ask people what basis there is for Gatsby being white, I get silence. I have asked students, colleagues. They don’t know. They cannot give me any evidence to back up the speculation. And why haven’t people made this argument so far?”

Of course as with any theory or reading of a classic text, there’s room for disagreement:

Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli has one answer. “Because it’s mishigas! If Fitzgerald wanted to write about blacks, it wouldn’t have taken 75 years to figure it out. If that’s what Fitzgerald wanted, he would have made it perfectly clear in April 1925. Great works of literature are not fodder for guessing games. This kind of thing is bad for literature, bad for Fitzgerald, bad for ‘The Great Gatsby’ and bad for students who get exposed to this kind of guessing game.”

But why shouldn’t we play a guessing game with it? We don’t have Fitzgerald around to verify any of these details so why not have a bit of fun with the text? It’s a very modern reading of the text and it makes it not only more relatable but more heartbreaking.

Everyone has their own reasons why they can’t be with their own Daisy.

Why shouldn’t Gatsby be black? And why can’t he really be with Daisy?

In this discussion about whether or not Beethoven was black, the point is made:

Another tight question along these lines: Was Jay Gatsby black? Again, it’s probably not literally the case (as Fitzgerald intended it) –- but what’s much more interesting is everyone’s utter inability to take it seriously as a legitimate reading of the text, which it is.

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yo do you think i could be in a polyamorous relationship with tyler posey and dylan o’brien? would they be down for that?

all this stuff with wayne is so suspect. tmz won’t budge and they’re posting even more pictures from outside the hospital. they retracted the stuff about wayne getting his last rites but added info about his mom flying to l.a.

meanwhile, all we have on the other side if mack maine/birdman saying he’s awake watching a basketball game. and then a tweet that they could have easily faked? are you kidding me?

more than anything they need to send out a picture. i don’t think ymbmb’s camp is being 100% truthful. hoping for the best but none of this is adding up.

edit: sources from the hospital say wayne’s asleep right now. what the fuck.

but when has tmz ever been wrong?

i want to see this official statement. like i can’t tell if all of that stuff happened earlier today and he somehow recovered, or if they just made it up… they had to get it from somewhere.

also i was sobbing for like 5 min before mack maine tweeted that message. wayne can’t go.

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dang did someone really unfollow me for that post smh

why do people hate on jarley so much? like the new kids in general actually

hating them won’t make the new york scenes any less sleep-inducing