Re: Irony in West Egg

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I'm going to have to side with Scottie and Pierrot on this one. I never
feel I have
much reason to mistrust Nick Carraway's version of events - I think there's
far better examples we could find of a narrator that is intentionally
unreliable. Thanks for great posts on this one.

P.S. to Pierrot - I agree, let's talk Fitzgerald!

Camille
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Scottie wrote:
>     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.
>     

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