tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post2204403886954453169..comments2024-03-14T16:57:29.045-04:00Comments on Whisky Prajer: Gatsby vs. The Haters!dpreimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-65540938985617666792013-05-10T10:27:52.020-04:002013-05-10T10:27:52.020-04:00I agree. The scene about two-thirds of the way thr...I agree. The scene about two-thirds of the way through when everyone is sitting in a hotel suite and Tom Buchanan is, in his slow, clumsy way, confronting Gatsby is terrific for exactly those sorts of details. The whole party getting drunk on a Sunday morning, driving into the city, taking out a suite at the Plaza so they can get drunker, and meanwhile the heat of the summer day is bearing down on them because nobody has air-conditioning in 1925. There's no radio, so there's no music. They're just sitting in a large, silent, stiflingly hot room, all dressed up and sweaty, getting on each other's nerves. Terrific.dpreimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-48385068498716322682013-05-10T08:46:09.246-04:002013-05-10T08:46:09.246-04:00I'll start right out by saying i'm not a h...I'll start right out by saying i'm not a high-brow literary person, so I'm not qualified to evaluate what is good art and what is not. But to me the main value of literature is that it lets you see a glimpse of a time period and culture that now no longer exist. And the Great Gatsby is good in that regard.<br />There may be some flowerly passages, but there's also a lot of passages where the characters are just sitting around talking like normal people, and the dialogue sections are good. The characters seem like real people. It makes it seem like the 1920s could have been happening yesterday, instead of 100 years ago.Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com