[ SECRET POST #2364 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2364 ⌋

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Comments

[chardmonster]

You do realize that the whole theme of the book is "the Jazz Age sure is empty and spiritually deadening," right?

I think you do (little small text I saw after starting this) but I saw a Tiffany ad selling Gatsby-inspired jewelry and I kind of wanted to punch it. Twenties fashion is awesome, but don't like it because of The Great Gatsby! That's like me getting really into 1930s cars because The Grapes Of Wrath made me want to go on a road trip.

[(Anonymous)]

"That's like me getting really into 1930s cars because The Grapes Of Wrath made me want to go on a road trip."

Love it. Thanks for the laugh!

[(Anonymous)]

As if fashion cares about that. Fashion people make photo shoots about oil spills and women writers' suicides. Why would they stop at that?

[chardmonster]

I sincerely doubt they're pro-oil spills and pro-women writers' suicides. While that Vice shoot was awful, fashion photographers are artsy. The person who shot that image probably really liked Virginia Woolf.

There's nothing wrong with liking 1920s fashion. The 1920s were neat! It's just odd to like it because of The Great Gatsby. But you can like 1920s fashion and like The Great Gatsby at the same time. I certainly do. Same as I like both The Grapes of Wrath and 1930s fashion. Same as I can think Southern antebellum dress and architecture is really neat while knowing it came from a horrifically flawed culture.

Show us on the dress form where fashion hurt you.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, but just the idea that people would somehow care about the 'message' of the novel if it ever got in the way of 'ooh pretty' and even more importantly 'let's sell people shit.' I don't mean that they're pro or con anything. I think they just don't give a fuck - that fashion is built on an...abyss... of shallowness... wait that doesn't work. But you know.

[(Anonymous)]

Well Gatsby might have been what introduced them to the 20s in the first place. And they even might have gotten the message and still liked the fashion. Whoa!

[greenvelvetcake]

To be fair, after reading The Grapes of Wrath, I had the strongest urge to go out Californey way.

And have a drink of water.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering if someone was going to mention this. F. Scott Fitzgerald purposely wrote this book with the intention of talking about the corruption of the wealthy in the 1920s and how the impoverished class was left with cleaning their messes up. In fact, the entire theme of the book was about the deconstruction of the American Dream, and how the wealthy will never see you as "one of them", even if you achieve financial success through hard work.

That's why there was so many parallels to white as purity and yellow as corruption in the book too. And why one of the main characters, Daisy, seemed like she was a sweet, innocent person, but was corrupted enough to do a hit and run on a girl and let Gatsby take the blame for it without batting an eyelash. The Great Gatsby was never about glamorizing the 20s or about a love story. It was about obsession, class interaction, and how the corrupt can be hidden in plain sight.