Gatsby
I'm teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, in the upcoming term, so I re-read the thing. I won't go into much detail, so as not to forestall the students.
This is the third time I've read it, and my experience in the past was feeling that it was well-written, followed by completely and utterly forgetting everything about it except there's this big house with parties, and a guy who fixed the World Series.
This time, I see why I'm psychologically inclined to delete the characters, and thus the story, soon after completion. I know most of these people, and their main features are connected to events I'd like to forget.
It is a classic.
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