F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tumblr Posts
"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghostly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby - a book review
the only reason im giving this a 4 star rating is because the plot wasn't all that interesting and the ending was quite predictable (but what can i say this is not a detective novel so i didn't really mind that bit) . i had higher expectations. i did, still though, like the book. it was enjoyable, albeit it was hard to navigate or pay attention to the plot that was a bit dull at times. possibly the only reason i gave this a 4 star rating is because of fitzgerald's writing style and word choices. his writing style's quite simplistic, not that hard to read compared to other classical authors, yet it still conveys what he wants it to. his descriptions are quite vivid as well, of course they are not as brilliant as edogawa ranpo's but they were still well written. his wordings, i suppose i could call them, were mainly what made me like this book as much as i do. he worded some sentences so beautifully. it was quite nice to read. i don't think that i would recommend this book to many, as its plot isn't really intriguing, but i suppose if i were to recommend this to someone, it would be for the language arts used. for fitzgerald's admirable way of words. note: i imagined gastby as francis from bungou stray dogs and it made it a bit funny to read. they're a lot alike and it's obvious why. a second note: i did not like the blatant racism and sexism here but i suppose that was normal back then (which is just disgusting to think about)
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 24 Sept 1896)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald "Tender Is The Night"
2009
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald / This Side of Paradise
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka
Appreciation Post
"There's nothing brighter than Leo playing Jay Gatsby in that white suit "
THE GREAT GATSBY (2013)
It takes two to make an accident.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via thelovejournals)
The wrecks that were left, could it been my fault as well, when all i wanted was you but you didn’t anymore?
We ruined ourselves—I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letter to Zelda Fitzgerald, 1930 (via thelovejournals)
But in the end we did.
i’ve been trying to explain this to my ap lang class but not a single person has read the secret history
UPDATE: in college now writing an essay about how tsh should be accepted into the Canon™️ and one of my points is how Richard & Henry’s relationship so closely mirrors Nick & Gatsby’s and i haven’t been this fired up abt an essay in ages
and what if I said richard was nick and henry was his gatsby
and what if I said richard was nick and henry was his gatsby
sharing my gallery full of BSD live actions images (part 8)
sharing my gallery full of BSD live actions images (part 12)
sharing my gallery full of BSD live actions images (part 15)
Wtf jay and nick are so gay help😭 (they had literally one conversation)