[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

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[nyxelestia]

NAYRT

As someone still very into YA and in touch with a lot of that market demographic, I'd say teenagers don't really seem to care too much about the whiny/entitled/self-centeredness of the main characters. Those traits just come up a lot because that's how the adult authors of these books tend to think of teenagers. (And to be honest, those traits also seem to be more of a vicious cycle rather than anything else - adults think that's what teens are like, books and movies and TV shows are made to depict teens like that, kids see and hear all this and think that's what teens are supposed to be like and so they start acting like that, reinforcing adults' beliefs which in turn influences the media kids are consuming...)

Though for Holden, yeah, I found him incredibly whiny, as did most of my friends and classmates. However, it was most in a "what an idiot/so stupidly naive" kind of way ("Yes, Holden, the world is phony, are you just figuring it out now?" "Oh, you want to protect children from the world? As if they aren't already a part of it?" "Love that mellow messiah complex you've got going there...")

And I don't know what the overall trend on Gatsby is, but most us in English class at the time I read it saw it as largely a "bubble-bursting" book about how following idealistic dreams and/or shallow pursuits makes you ignore the real world and kills your common sense, and will mostly hurt you in the end. *insert "gee, why does that sound so familiar?" jokes here*