Jay Gatsby was Black the entire time.

[MalikReloaded]

It's not reaching at all, people under estimate authors highly or they don't speak about their brilliance.

Think if rappers and MC's are extremely clever with metaphors and double entendre's, etc, think about what an author can do who sits down and focuses on writing for a career.

If you read some of the best authors or the worst favored you'll see they have underlying themes that take critical analysis skills to interpret. I even have a book on learning how to read, because reading is an art. It's not something simple and to notice patterns and ideas and hidden meanings behind things.

I can give you an example, read Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment and if you notice that he orientates things based on color. Yellow being one of them.

Or think about Huckleberry Finn and the kind of underlying impact that Mark Twain on American society and they didn't even know it. They just thought Jim was just another ******, but Mark Twain humanized him which was a way that white people DID NOT view black people as during that time.

+Books are made to be ambiguous, have you not realized that? That's why there aren't pictures in them most of the time. You fill in blanks yourself.

Will Smith should of had that damn role and not Leo

Reaching.

Jay Gatsby was a poor farm boy from Minnesota who got rejected by a rich girl for being unworthy. He built an empire to prove to himself that he was worthy of her and worthy of being included in that world. No more. No less.

If you think Fitzgerald added another layer to it by making him a minority....that's your opinion. But I'm not convinced, even though the reasons listed are cool to read. But come on. For one.....a black guy born in Minnesota in the late 1800s/early 1900s? His family would have been the only black family in the entire state A black guy rising to the top of the NYC bootlegging criminal world (one controlled by racist Italians and Irish gangs) and being mentored by someone affiliated with the Jewish mob. Highly HIGHLY unlikely. There would have been more references and rumblings made about his skin color, especially in the racist era of the 1920s.

 

[lotteryplaya]

This is my first time hearing a theory Gatsby was trying to pass. They have those celebs you didn't know were black list every few years.

 

[Mason83]

@JayGatsby

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Reaching.

Jay Gatsby was a poor farm boy from Minnesota who got rejected by a rich girl for being unworthy. He built an empire to prove to himself that he was worthy of her and worthy of being included in that world. No more. No less.

If you think Fitzgerald added another layer to it by making him a minority....that's your opinion. But I'm not convinced, even though the reasons listed are cool to read. But come on. For one.....a black guy born in Minnesota in the late 1800s/early 1900s? His family would have been the only black family in the entire state A black guy rising to the top of the NYC bootlegging criminal world (one controlled by racist Italians and Irish gangs) and being mentored by someone affiliated with the Jewish mob. Highly HIGHLY unlikely. There would have been more references and rumblings made about his skin color, especially in the racist era of the 1920s.

Um black people existed all over the US, who do you think was building the whole thing dofus? And what about Bumpy Johnson? where were your antennas

 

[Recca Gatsby]

One of my favorite books ever.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

I had a teacher in high school that secretly shared this theory with only the black kids.

Article is reaching on some points, but my teacher sparked something when he said the significance of this book was a black man with so much wealth and prestige at this time. I mean think about it, a book about a rich white guy isn't really a story worth reading. But a brother with that much status in the 20s is something else

But the mavro part, never noticed until now

 

[Mess World]

I'm not high enough for this yet

 

[Gab]

One of my favorite books ever.

caught you in your feels, dumb fakkit

 

[Formerly known as...]

Dope book, one of my favorites.

 

[Vert1]

Fascinating.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

caught you in your feels, dumb fakkit

lol no clue who you are

 

[Gab]

lol no clue who you are

stay mad

 

[Sane]

Nice reach there

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

This was a good book. The first book I ever really read and I was 17 and loved it.

You never know. I've read short stories by Fitzgerald and in one of them he had slaves who worked for a rich white family that were on some ayo technology ish.

It was called "a diamond as big as the Ritz"

We read it in my 10th grade advanced literature class. shyt starts off with them having a high class party. Starts talking about side pieces. I was like. Yeah this some shyt I can read here lol

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

And all in all who cares. It's a fukking book. The characters aren't real. You can portray them all to be black in your own head. shyt wasn't a picture book.