![]() ![]() It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body.” Not even the effeminate swank of his riding boots could hide the enormous power of that body-he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. “He was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. In a way that, one could argue, seems pretty sexually charged. But when we meet Tom Buchanan, who Nick doesn’t even particularly like, he takes a whole paragraph to illustrate his masculinity. In contrast, other characters regard these women as shockingly beautiful. ![]() When the reader is first introduced to them, Nick describes Daisy and Jordan as respectively, having a nice voice and having an erect carriage (?). Does this sound like the beginning to a Nicholas Sparks novel yet? He speaks of how he should hate Gatsby because he stands for everything Nick tries to avoid, yet he feels drawn to him anyway. For example, we know he can’t stand the obscenely wealthy. Through the way he describes others, we can infer certain things. He prefers to scrutinize the ones around him. He likes to distance himself from others. Within the first few pages, we know that Carraway is an especially flowery writer, and he’s unnaturally observant. His fascination with Gatsby is what truly drives his inclusion in the plot along the way, as Carraway is mostly disinterested in parties and drama. Something that would cause familial problems in a prominent family in 1922…his sexuality, perhaps?Ĭarraway is often unconcerned with the women in the novel. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald hints that there is something off about him, something that concerns his family. His aunts and uncles are worried about him, and he’s still single. I’ll start by introducing the character just as Fitzgerald himself sets it up. So, for those of us who didn’t see the signs, or who were taught the novel by someone who refused to, I’ll offer evidence. But my gaydar has been finely tuned by years of searching for the gay characters in books and movies and television shows in order to find some semblance of representation. ![]() To me, it’s painfully obvious that Nick Carraway is queer. Or perhaps some stuffy old English professor might blanch at the suggestion that one of the most beloved novels of all time has a queer protagonist. This theory is one I’m sure some will totally disregard, saying I’m reading too deep into things that aren’t there (which, if I am, I do so not alone, for there is an entire essay written about Fitzgerald’s use of the color yellow). Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic, The Great Gatsby. By Mya Nunnally (published 22 Sept 2017 in BookRiot)Īs the title subtly suggests, I have a theory about the narrator of F. ![]()
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