{"id":222,"date":"2017-02-18T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=222"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:29:23","slug":"discomfort-in-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/the-great-gatsby\/discomfort-in-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Discomfort in the Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon my second reading of this book, still I find that\u00a0one of\u00a0the most memorable scenes is the\u00a0exchange in the hotel room where Tom and Gatsby confront each other (beginning on page 126 in my version). What stands out to me the most is really how Fitzgerald framed the scene; continuous references to the extreme heat and the discomfort felt by everyone further emphasized the discomfort, tension and drama of the scene itself. All the characters, as well as\u00a0the reader, just want the scene to end as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>However, I find this same discomfort to be present throughout the book. It seems that in nearly every exchange of dialogue (I think specifically of most\u00a0involving Tom), Fitzgerald goes out of his way to make them incredibly disjointed and awkward. Very often one character cuts another off, and most every conversation it seems ends with silence, which Fitzgerald seems to emphasize. What is Fitzgerald attempting to convey\u00a0by doing this? Could he be making commentary about class, as we believe he is doing with other aspects of the narrative, or is it just something to do with his characters&#8217; personalities and how they clash with one another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon my second reading of this book, still I find that\u00a0one of\u00a0the most memorable scenes is the\u00a0exchange in the hotel room where Tom and Gatsby confront each other (beginning on page 126 in my version). What stands out to me the most is really how Fitzgerald framed the scene; continuous references to the extreme heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","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\/222","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\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}