Irony in West Egg
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:58:33 +0100
Well, Old Sport, I guess we read it differently.
It never seemed to me to be an account of disillusionment.
Rather, I always took Nick's idolisation of Jay to have
developed & deepened into something tragic & heroic as
his story emerged.
Also, since Nick is telling the story with all the knowledge
of hindsight I never felt he was misleading me but rather
hinting from the beginning that there was more to Gatsby
than met the eye. Or have my original feelings as I first
entered the story been overlaid by my own hindsight?
It's certainly not how I remember it.
Scottie B.