Fitzgerald's TN
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 06:07:50 CDT 2012
so, though I've read Fitz more times than I care to admit, and Gatsby
more times than almost any other book, I was prompted to open TN and
take a close reading look into how it is constructed. More on this
later...but the names, a Mr Flesh, a couple of Neverquivers, Diver,
and names that read like advetisments, an characters who comment on
the jingles of names. So, nothing wrong with stupid names. Shakespeare
was not afraid of them. Pynchon only pushes them to new lows, as in
low puns, a comic tradition.
The faces; the sculpted bodies and faces are also there, not as in
Hemingway or Faulkner.
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