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a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about
I’m trying to find a good The Great Gatsby audiobook, however way too many narrators use a vaguely British accent. Nick is from Minnesota. Where is my immersion? Where is it?!
You’re doing Very Important work, OP. Thank you.
I'm annotating The Great Gatsby- marking every part that I feel evidences Nick to be queer or in love with Gatsby. This is only the first two chapters.
Gatsby: “oh yeah I lived in the Midwest”
Nick: “oh really where?”
Gatsby: “San Francisco”
Nick:
so the thing about what might happen if jay got to read tgg (the book as if nick wrote it) is that there’s 6 billion ways for it to go and they’re all fucking funny. these are examples of things i think jay would say to nick, especially if natsby happened
1. “You call me gorgeous three times in this book.”
2. “Do I really say old sport that much?”
3. “Nick. I would say you complimented me more than once.”
4. “Were you—Nick, were you trying to say ‘I love you’?”
5. “What happened between you and Mckee?”
6. “I think you judge people a lot more than you think you do.”
7. “Why are you talking about your cousin’s husband like this?”
Instead of writing intensive parodies of public-domain works (like Pride And Prejudice And Zombies) or our own additions to public-domain universes (like a lot of Lovecraftian mythos fiction), I think that we should write unecessary-ass sequels.
Consider, if you will: The Great Gatsby 2: Nick Has A Gun
there is something deeply wrong with nick carraway in gatsby. motherfucker has been disassocating probably since the end of the war. he watches a marriage almost implode in front of him and in the stunned silence afterwards tells the awful husband, "oh yeah i just remembered today's my birthday"
i dont think casual and high school level discussions focus on how deeply weird nick must be in person and how that affects scenes? i vaguely remember analyses usually focusing on daisy and tom and gatsby but they all use nick as a barely functioning soundboard for horrible behavior and when he doesn't say anything are probably thinking "well nick seems so chill he would stop me if this was Truly Weird" and nick is meanwhile staring off into the distance thinking about what he ate last tuesday and that green eyed bilboard
edit: right and the accident literally happens next page so the weirdness of nick is probably skipped over by most readers
Started reading the Great Gatsby and I dunno if the rest of the book is like this, but the first chapter is so funny because Tom is like "colored people are taking over America!!!! We need to defend the superior race!!!!" and Daisy is like "Yeah, life fucking SUCKS man I hope my kid is fuckin stupid so she doesn't have to deal with this shit" and Mrs. Baker is like "bro did you hear that Tom is cheating on Daisy? Yeah, their marriage is in fuckin SHAMBLES" and Nick reacts to literally all of this with nothing more than "huh. Weird. Anyways."
oh wow that gatsby fella's pretty great
“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
just a lillllll homoerotic imo nick,,, only a little bit,,,
guess whos back with more
ok bye lol
more Great Gatsby + Natsby edits
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I made some Natsby edits
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What do you mean The Great Gatsby isn’t my intellectual property now?
What’s that, old sport? Copyright? My word dear boy, just buy the copy machine and let’s be on our way!
WE’RE LEGAL NOW, OLD SPORT!!!
What do you mean The Great Gatsby isn’t my intellectual property now?
What’s that, old sport? Copyright? My word dear boy, just buy the copy machine and let’s be on our way!
This reminds me of the fuckin wild rewrite someone did called Self made boys. It was so bad I couldn’t get past the first chapter i was laughing too much. It was like if someone published a shitty wattpad fanfic
Jay and Nick were both gay. And gasp trans! And they were making their own ways in the world in the 1920s. And some how no one realized. Nick and Daisy were latin americans and daisy was obsessed with appearing white to the point where she stopped going out into the sun a lot and bleached her hair. It was truly wild.
Nick drives me fucking crazy because the first chapter was literally just “Gatsby’s not like other girls :(“ STOP SUCKING HIS DICK HES IN LOVE WITH YOUR COUSIN!!!! HES DOWN SO BAD ITS PATHETIC!!! Nick stop being a funky gay dude challenge IMPOSSIBLE.