You're red, F Scott fits Gerald's The Great Gatsby back in school, right?

At some point you got exposed that maybe you saw the Leonardo DiCaprio version, who directed

that?

Was that Boslurman?

It felt like a Boslurman film.

I don't know if it was or not.

It was all right.

It was interesting.

But one of the things I remember about going through that book was that my, must have

been ninth grade English teacher at Highland High School in all Colorado told me that what

I needed to be doing was writing down the repeated themes like this Fitzgerald character.

He uses repetition a lot to make a point and some of the key themes and key payoffs are

detectable and much more satisfying if you keep an eye out for those points of repetition.

And so as we're going through it, we find that this theme of filth, industrial filth

ashes is how it's usually expressed, keeps coming up throughout the book.

And the idea is that this industrial wasteland, just this ik moment in society is what you're

seeing in most places.

But then you've got this upper crust fancy put lipstick on it lifestyle that is being

created by the great Gatsby and the contrast to this is his constant use of this term old

sport.

He says it all the time and it's like a way to distract from the reality of what things

are.

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