Jordan Baker really is the woman ever. She’s an heiress. She’s a golf champion. She cheats at golf. She’s “incurably dishonest.” She can’t stand not to be in control in any relationship she’s in. She’s a horrible driver. Her only family is her aunt. She’s so incredibly cavalier about her dad dying. She’s a pawn in Gatsby’s plan and she doesn’t seem to care beyond thinking he’s crazy. She loves Daisy. She couldn’t care less what happens to Daisy. She claims to have a fiancé and the narrator can’t decide whether she’s lying. She’s in a situationship with said narrator. Literary critics have been calling her gay since the 1940s. She’s integral to the themes of the book. She doesn’t matter to the plot at all, she’s just there to look good and be a foil to Nick and to Daisy. She’s the only sane person in the whole book and she’s definitely got something wrong with her. I wonder if she’s free Saturday
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Challengers (2024) by Luca Guadagnino
Book title: The Great Gatsby (1925) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Notes on BSD characters from reading the author's works but I slowly loose my mind the more I read
(This was just originally just supposed to be notes for me to reference when writing characters, but Rimbaud broke me)
Dazai - No Longer Human and other stories - Insecurity formed around feelings of inadequacy, masking pain with humour, fear of strangers but a love of people society considers weak, self-loathing but unrelentingly himself, just a walking contradiction of world views.
Chuuya - Poetry Collection - Heartache, weariness, loss of innocence and resentment for stolen childhoods, want for things to be simple and feeling crushed under the world's complexities, feeling stuck and stagnant in life but not knowing how to fix it.
Akutagawa - Rashomon and other stories - Self-loathing, cynicism, a lot of self-doubt, mistrust in other people, fear of the future (having no future/death and what lies beyond), bitter humour, his mind is his own worst enemy.
Lucy - Anne of Green Gables - Overtly imaginative as a coping mechanism, hope and wonder above everything, longing for security and a safe home, finds it difficult to make friends but is fiercely loyal to those who take the time to know her.
Fyodor - Crime and Punishment - so much self-righteousness, constantly needing to be right (both for petty things and morally)- speaking of morals- morally bankrupt but will justify his actions so he doesn't feel that way, selfishness, always three seconds away from loosing it, needs to be sicker
Rimbaud - Poetry collection - uh.... uuuuhhhhh.... *stares at the many sex poems I had to read through* Not horny enough apparently
Bram - Keeps a journal. Charismatic but in a he's everyone's grampa way, should have a pet wolf, into disguises, forever society's outsider, very lonely but also very paranoid, yearning to be loved/accepted
Fitzgerald (and by extension Zelda's character) - The Great Gatsby - Momentous regret, unable to move on from the past, unable to properly grieve their losses because of it. A life wasted on an unachievable dream that tears them apart. Money won't cure the sadness but it sure helps drowning in it. THE GREEN LIGHT, HIS ABILITY IS THE GREEN LIGHT NOT THE COLOUR OF MONEY, ITS THE COLOUR OF ALL THAT HE CAN NEVER HAVE, HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTER ALWAYS AND FOREVER OUT OF HIS REACH AND YET ETCHED ONTO HIS SKIN GUIDING HIS EVERY ACTION
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