{"id":32585,"date":"2020-06-15T19:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32585"},"modified":"2020-06-15T19:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:44:14","slug":"speculating-about-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32585","title":{"rendered":"Speculating about The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some recent thinking on Twitter\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spending my Saturday morning thinking about The Great Gatsby and considering the possibility that Gatsby deserted from the Army while in France during World War I.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271795019414933511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Was he reassigned to another unit at that point? Fitzgerald doesn&#39;t say. The point of the conversation is to make a pre-novel connection between Gatsby and Nick in units of the Third Division.<br><br>But that date!<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271796016774291457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#39;s obscure historical trivia today, but in the 1920s Fitzgerald&#39;s readers might have known it. Why is it important? Because Fitzgerald is telling us Gatsby left the Third Division a month before their first major action.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271797001601126402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">His enlistment could have just happened to be up at that point.<br><br>He could have been reassigned elsewhere in the Army.<br><br>He could have deserted.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271797927699152896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gatsby is a scammer who lives by his wits. He&#39;s also a bit of a coward, as his unwillingness to fight Tom demonstrates.<br><br>If the opportunity presented itself, why wouldn&#39;t he run?<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271798983241932800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Certainly, this literary exegesis of The Great Gatsby intrigues me more than green lights and symbolism.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1271801014228865026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> enters the public domain <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2019\/12\/art-1924-public-domain-worst-according-to-contemporary-critics.html\">at the beginning of 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Header photo: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/187433703@N06\/49687179187\/in\/photolist-2iGFMie-2RrPTv-eiJSiC-5bVvL-5bWa9-fJD76-dkjzg-5bVgy-8v7USk-8Tch46-4t7RkQ-4t3MRx-9maJJs-uNDSJ-4CZhtn-6LpZX7-ayMvhm-4hZ9a3-cJ68S-ngdCTY-4cRLea-boJSzC-bBDAzx-5bVYj-5dxNwg\">Gatsby<\/a>,&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/187433703@N06\/\">Larry Yeiser<\/a>, licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent thinking on Twitter\u2026 F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s The Great Gatsby enters the public domain at the beginning of 2021. 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