Gatsby
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gasolineman (01/11/2016) [-]
It's like all the themed accounts just decided to have an autist-off...
Don't worry I love you guys
Don't worry I love you guys
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iderpedintofj (01/11/2016) [-]
It was the manual how to be a man and how to be someone's bitch.
Gatsby himself, as cool as he was, did everything for a SINGULAR WOMAN.
It's like hitting the 1.3 bil lotto right now, erecting a huge mansion, inviting ******* LOADS of hot girls, throwing the wildest/craziest parties, and holding out for some girl who you thought was THE ONE.
There's going to be a lot of The One's if you're wealthy enough to be Gatsby, even more if you're charismatic enough to work your way to it and not fall into luxury.
Tom wasn't a good man. But he was iconic for what a man was considered to be in that time period. He was raised to think that women were things, and believe it or not, that still works today. He wasn't wealthy, but he wasn't hurting at all for money. He's like your upper-middle class bachelor today, honestly.
Thing is, women are people, which this book fails horribly to recognize. They put their pants on the same way men do - one leg at a ******* time. They're not the prize of some stupid ******* game, they're just ******* people. (Also, this is why SJW and all the other cancerous ******** on the Internet pisses me off. We're all people; inherently different, but not terribly aside from each other. We're all just... people.)
Gatsby himself, as cool as he was, did everything for a SINGULAR WOMAN.
It's like hitting the 1.3 bil lotto right now, erecting a huge mansion, inviting ******* LOADS of hot girls, throwing the wildest/craziest parties, and holding out for some girl who you thought was THE ONE.
There's going to be a lot of The One's if you're wealthy enough to be Gatsby, even more if you're charismatic enough to work your way to it and not fall into luxury.
Tom wasn't a good man. But he was iconic for what a man was considered to be in that time period. He was raised to think that women were things, and believe it or not, that still works today. He wasn't wealthy, but he wasn't hurting at all for money. He's like your upper-middle class bachelor today, honestly.
Thing is, women are people, which this book fails horribly to recognize. They put their pants on the same way men do - one leg at a ******* time. They're not the prize of some stupid ******* game, they're just ******* people. (Also, this is why SJW and all the other cancerous ******** on the Internet pisses me off. We're all people; inherently different, but not terribly aside from each other. We're all just... people.)
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hikakiller ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
>get rich for a girl
>buy a mansion for a girl
>she doesn't love you
>die
>buy a mansion for a girl
>she doesn't love you
>die
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terranrollerskates (01/11/2016) [-] No, that's not it at all. The point is we're not Gatsby, we're the protagonist, old sport! We figure out by his example to not do what he did! We get our mansions, yeah, but by no means do we live for some indigent sap whose voice is like money!
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derpthefifth (01/11/2016) [-] “I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Every time this occurs to me the rational part of me considers it a cautionary tale, yet another part of me full of romanticizem and infinite hope, considers this only as a love story gone tragically wrong.
Every time this occurs to me the rational part of me considers it a cautionary tale, yet another part of me full of romanticizem and infinite hope, considers this only as a love story gone tragically wrong.
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hexadecimated (01/11/2016) [-] The women in that novel caused pretty much all the problems. Not gonna sugarcoat it.
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tropenthatshtup (01/11/2016) [-] I mean, she was married to Tom at the time. She was at least trying to be faithful. Kinda. That book was weird. Good weird but weird.
