{"id":258,"date":"2017-02-21T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:49:28","slug":"connection-to-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/sherwood-anderson-grace-paley\/connection-to-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection to Gatsby- Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The narrator&#8217;s use of his father in Anderson&#8217;s story really makes me think of Jay Gatsby. Both men tried to put on a performance to win over the affection of people, Daisy for Gatsby and the towns people for the narrator&#8217;s father. Nonetheless, both ultimately failed. Just how Daisy is a representation to Gatsby of money (success, fulfillment), so are the towns people to the narrator&#8217;s father. Coincidentally, both Daisy and the towns people are wealthier and more well off than their constituents.\u00a0 The disdain felt by both Daisy and the Joe Kane (he laughed at the narrator&#8217;s father attempt to entertain him) connects to their status and rubs in the lack of importance of both Gatsby and the narrator&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>I also think that the fact that the family remains nameless to us reinforces their unfortunate irrelevance in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The narrator&#8217;s use of his father in Anderson&#8217;s story really makes me think of Jay Gatsby. Both men tried to put on a performance to win over the affection of people, Daisy for Gatsby and the towns people for the narrator&#8217;s father. Nonetheless, both ultimately failed. Just how Daisy is a representation to Gatsby of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherwood-anderson-grace-paley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}