souremongrel
09-18-2012, 12:49 PM
Are YOU reading the great gatsby in your english class?
well, i am. and i need some ideas on this book.
this will be a very general thread and people can post whatever about this book.
in my opinion, sometimes i have a hard time putting together the complex wording of fitzgerald's language. e.g.:
"When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
can someone translate this into simple text?
well, i am. and i need some ideas on this book.
this will be a very general thread and people can post whatever about this book.
in my opinion, sometimes i have a hard time putting together the complex wording of fitzgerald's language. e.g.:
"When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
can someone translate this into simple text?