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)