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WHAT IS THE SIGNIFINCE OF NICK BEG GAY THE GREAT GATSBY?
Stt Fzgerald’s The Great Gatsby some years ago, a stunt raised his hand and asked, sence: What are we supposed to make of the scene where Nick Carraway go off wh the gay guy? And I said, sence: Wa, what gay guy? ” Fraser ultimately equivoted on the qutn of Nick’s sexualy, but 1992, Edward Waslek argued “The Sexual Drama of Nick and Gatsby” that the gay subtext Gatsby is crystal clear: “I do not know how one n read the scene McKee’s bedroom any other way, pecially when so many other facts about [Nick’s] behavr support such a ncln.
In the s sce, suggtns that maybe, possibly, there’s more to Fzgerald’s narrator than he’s lettg on have given way to ever more self-assured, even fatly dignant, assertns of Nick’s queerns, wh tl like The Atlantic’s 2013 article “The Great Gatsby Movie Need to Be More Gay” or BookRt’s 2017 piece “Nick Carraway Is Queer and Love wh Jay Gatsby. I’m five years too old to lie to myself and ll honor”—a le that rgs differently if you read Nick as a closeted gay man. That last one, I’ll adm, is a touch too Frdian for me, but if Nick were gay and love wh Gatsby sure would clear up some thgs—such as what exactly Nick se Gatsby, a social-climbg fabulist wh gangster iends who mov heaven and earth for a woman Nick plaly se as a dz.
McKee’s bedroom isn’t merely a myster terlu a nonil book, but a secret key that opens the door onto one of Ameri’s first great gay novels. So then, is Nick gay? But ’s worth notg that when he wrote Gatsby, Fzgerald was the goln boy of Amerin letters at a time of near-universal homophobia.