Ok so I was reading the Wikipedia entry on nick carraway (as one does) and in the footnotes there was this quote from one of fitzgerald's short stories:
"[W]e are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. When I hear a man proclaiming himself an 'average, honest, open fellow,' I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal".
So this is literally describing nick right??? Nick "one of the few honest people I have ever known" carraway?? He's literally calls himself a "normal person" at the start of the book?? Like this sounds exactly like something he would say, i wouldnt bat an eye if somewhere in the book he word for word says "i am an average, open, honest fellow"?? Of course, we all know already that this guy has something wrong with him. Good to know that fitzgerald agrees. But yknow what fitzgerald (and nick) would probably consider to be a definite and perhaps terrible abnormality. Liking men. Send post
