{"id":193,"date":"2017-02-15T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=193"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:45:52","slug":"skeptical-of-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/the-great-gatsby\/skeptical-of-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeptical of Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think there might be another layer to Gatsby&#8217;s character that gets overlooked by most. When he meets Daisy, he gets really flustered and uncomfortable. I just don&#8217;t buy it and am wondering if that, too, is an act. My skepticism comes from his interactions with Tom. On p. 103, Tom is surprised and almost abhorred when Gatsby gets ready to leave with the woman who Tom says does not want him. The impression I got was that Gatsby has trouble picking up on social cues. Two pages later, p. 105, Gatsby introduces Tom as the polo player. Tom responds, &#8220;&#8216;not me&#8217;&#8230;but evidently the sound of it pleased Gatsby, for Tom remained &#8216;the polo player&#8217; for the rest of the evening'&#8221;. I interpreted that interaction as Gatsby very much so picking up on the social cue of Tom&#8217;s uncomfortableness but calling him the &#8220;polo player&#8221; anyway just to bother Tom. It then makes me skeptical of situations like p. 103 where Gatsby appears oblivious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think there might be another layer to Gatsby&#8217;s character that gets overlooked by most. When he meets Daisy, he gets really flustered and uncomfortable. I just don&#8217;t buy it and am wondering if that, too, is an act. My skepticism comes from his interactions with Tom. On p. 103, Tom is surprised and almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-gatsby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}