tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259869640058656591.post6199835820574342700..comments2023-10-19T03:07:52.938-07:00Comments on Dean A. Anderson: A Review of Maureen Corrigan's So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Little, Brown and Company, 2014)Dean A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18270286512901118184noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2259869640058656591.post-17156347851891739342014-10-20T11:30:47.605-07:002014-10-20T11:30:47.605-07:00You ought to re-read the parts where Corrigan disc...You ought to re-read the parts where Corrigan discusses Buchanan and the racism/anti-semitism/gender norming fears (Jordan, the androgenous woman golfer) anxiety about "others" in the book. She acknowledges all of that, but does **not** condemn Fitzgerald for any of it. This is part of the complexity of the book--that a well-off white man would feel this during the 1920s of the Klan and immigration restrictions is understandable. Yet FSF also indeed makes Buchanan a buffoon--so like all great literature, TGG is a complicated and lends itself to conflictual readings.Yeselsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11696334138300910477noreply@blogger.com