Most queer readings of Gatsby begin with that scene with Mr.
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In the decades since, suggestions that maybe, possibly, there’s more to Fitzgerald’s narrator than he’s letting on have given way to ever more self-assured, even faintly indignant, assertions of Nick’s queerness, with titles like The Atlantic’s 2013 article “The Great Gatsby Movie Needed to Be More Gay” or BookRiot’s 2017 piece “Nick Carraway Is Queer and in Love with Jay Gatsby.” Whether my student knew it or not, he was tapping into a strain of scholarly inquiry into the sexual orientation of Nick Carraway that dates back at least to Keath Fraser’s 1979 essay “Another Reading of The Great Gatsby.” Fraser ultimately equivocated on the question of Nick’s sexuality, but in 1992, Edward Wasiolek argued in “The Sexual Drama of Nick and Gatsby” that the gay subtext in Gatsby is crystal clear: “I do not know how one can read the scene in McKee’s bedroom in any other way, especially when so many other facts about behavior support such a conclusion.” I’d read the book half a dozen times since college, and taught it once, but I had somehow missed the fact that the narrator wanders off in a drunken stupor with a stranger and ends up in his bedroom. I had, I’m embarrassed to say, never seen that passage before. Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning Tribune, and waiting for the four o’clock train. “Beauty and the Beast…Loneliness…Old Grocery Horse…Brook’n Bridge…”
…I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands. McKee with dignity, “I didn’t know I was touching it.” “Keep your hands off the lever,” snapped the elevator boy. “Come to lunch some day,” he suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator. Taking my hat from the chandelier, I followed. McKee turned and continued on out the door. McKee, to join them, and they throw a raucous party that ends with Tom breaking Myrtle’s nose.
Myrtle invites her sister and some neighbors, Mr. This is the chapter in which Nick accompanies Tom Buchanan and his mistress, Myrtle, to an apartment Tom keeps in Manhattan. He pointed me to the scene that closes Chapter II. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby some years ago, a student raised his hand and asked, in essence: What are we supposed to make of the scene where Nick Carraway goes off with the gay guy?Īnd I said, in essence: Wait, what gay guy? In the middle of a class discussion of F.
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