{"id":218,"date":"2017-02-18T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=218"},"modified":"2017-02-18T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T18:57:45","slug":"symbolism-of-the-mantlepiece-clock-in-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/the-great-gatsby\/symbolism-of-the-mantlepiece-clock-in-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolism of the Mantlepiece Clock in Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small detail that I would like to revisit\u00a0from the last reading (that we did not get to in class), occurs in the scene when Gatsby attempts to act suave in front of Daisy but instead leans back and hits the mantle. In doing so, he nudges a &#8220;mantelpiece clock\u201d onto the floor (87). This clock shatters and embodies the awkward confrontation that occurs\u00a0between Gatsby and Daisy.<\/p>\n<p>I bring up this detail because I would like to pose the question of whether we think there is deeper meaning to the object (specifically the clock) that Gatsby knocks off the mantle. Is it a reference to Gatsby&#8217;s warped perception of time&#8212; something he thinks can be repeated? Or is it more so a reference to Gatsby&#8217;s\u00a0reliance on time and time&#8217;s ultimate failure at returning him the love he once had for Daisy? I would love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small detail that I would like to revisit\u00a0from the last reading (that we did not get to in class), occurs in the scene when Gatsby attempts to act suave in front of Daisy but instead leans back and hits the mantle. In doing so, he nudges a &#8220;mantelpiece clock\u201d onto the floor (87). This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-dreamers","category-the-great-gatsby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}