Article round-up: The Gay Gatsby

[ms_minerva]

 

I cycle through fandoms: I get intense about specific books and films, and then drop them and move on. I recently got back into The Great Gatsby because my brother had to read it for school and I wanted to talk about it with him. We’re both Jay Gatsby/Nick Carraway shippers! I’m posting some of the articles I’ve read on gay subtext here.

 

Book synopsis: http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2016/12/31/blogging-the-great-gatsby/ 

A little juvenile, but I like her take on Tom Buchanan having a weird thing for Nick and that she dubbed Gatsby a “sexy orphan war hero” and his car a “phallic sin wagon.”

 

TV Tropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheGreatGatsby 

Has some good analysis of queer coding in the novel.

 

Book analysis: https://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/was_nick_carraway_gay/

 

More book analysis, alternate view: https://themillions.com/2018/04/the-queering-of-nick-carraway.html 

 

2013 film analysis: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-the-great-gatsby-i-movie-needed-to-be-more-gay/275768/ 

 

The Truman Capote script that was “too gay” for the 1970s film: https://the-niche.blog/2017/10/18/hey-gays-heres-truman-capotes-hardcore-gay-screenplay-of-the-great-gatsby-for-real-this-time/  (note that this isn’t actually very gay but still interesting!)

 

And finally, this masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYq3Y6vwrTs (PLEASE EVERYONE WATCH THIS)

Comments

[norsellie]

Oh wow. That video truly is a masterpiece! I only have the vaguest idea of what The Great Gatsby is about, but that video was amazing.

[ms_minerva]

Right?! I love sharing it with people because the artist did an amazing job and I want everyone to watch it :) The Great Gatsby is a pretty short novel and a classic so definitely worth checking out! And the video syncs so well to Nick's character arc and how he portrays Gatsby in his writing, it's crazy! Glad Twilight Sparkle approves :D

[vienne1196]

That video is a thing of PURE BEAUTY

[ms_minerva]

RIGHT?! glad you enjoyed it!!

[vienne1196]

I love that song and have always envisioned it as gay, but I've always shipped the two girls in the song.

[ms_minerva]

I've always been a sucker for the two girls who were fighting over a boy ending up with each other instead, too!