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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: SirMystiq on December 03, 2003, 07:33:40 PM

Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: SirMystiq on December 03, 2003, 07:33:40 PM: Ok what does "So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line...." mean?

What time of the year do you think it is?

also what does the phrase "her hands cold with jewels" mean to you?
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Coredweller on December 03, 2003, 07:46:38 PM: Do your own homework. :p

I graduated High School for a reason... so that I wouldn\'t have to answer stupid questions like this anymore. ;)
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: videoholic on December 03, 2003, 07:52:22 PM: I think about that all of the time. I don\'t have to know what long mistical lines mean in literature. And you know what? I get paid the same.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: SirMystiq on December 03, 2003, 08:08:17 PM: ITS NOT HOMEWORK....

I was just reading this book, which just happens to be required for my class. And I was just wondering.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: videoholic on December 03, 2003, 08:15:39 PM: First line means it was dry. Or so I assume.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: theomen on December 03, 2003, 09:18:03 PM: "her hands cold with jewels"

ghetto translation;
She was rock\'n the ice.....bling bling
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Sara on December 03, 2003, 09:25:00 PM: brittle leaves, wind, stiff clothes maybe implying COLD (not frozen)

gotta be autumn
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: SwifDi on December 03, 2003, 10:06:17 PM: I still think that book is incredibly overrated... It\'s only widely recognized because it was the first to have unvieled the true dark shadow of the "roaring twenties".
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Paul2 on December 04, 2003, 12:42:47 AM: I remember reading this book in my junior English class and watching a video of it. I didn\'t really understand the movie but the ending is sad. A mechanic I believe wife\'s was killed by accident by Gatsby. His wife left the mechanic because she wanted to be with rich guy like Gatsby. When she died, the mechanic got outta control and killed Gatsby and then took his life.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on December 04, 2003, 03:53:16 AM: i read this book like 2-3 years ago.

It has something to do with her personality.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: SwifDi on December 04, 2003, 06:26:04 AM: The money and chivalrous life has hardened her into a gold digging robot.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: The Stapler on December 04, 2003, 12:49:01 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SwifDi
I still think that book is incredibly overrated... It\'s only widely recognized because it was the first to have unvieled the true dark shadow of the "roaring twenties".

You could have just said "It sucked".
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: JBean on December 04, 2003, 12:58:45 PM: it\'s autumn and someone is burning leaves... hence the blue smoke. And the clothes "wind blew the clothes stiff on the line" means it\'s really windy and the clothes on the clothes line are being blown nearly horizontal.

Or maybe not
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: SirMystiq on December 04, 2003, 09:23:37 PM: Those who said it was fall...you were right!!!

The Great Gatsby movie was horrible. Especially when compared with the novel.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Living-In-Clip on December 04, 2003, 11:06:18 PM: You know what, I have never understood why they teach this stuff. How does this really effect what you will make in life?

Don\'t tell me that it is because you may want to persue a career as a writer - because chances are, if you wanted to be an author, you would already be interested in this stuff and wouldn\'t be forced to read it.

Teach the kids something they need to know. How to feel out a 401k form, how to flip burgers and how to live a medicore life that will end in misery, most likely. Now that is preparing them for the world!
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Samwise on December 05, 2003, 12:04:27 AM: Hehe LICky, that\'s the spirit. :D
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: (e) on December 05, 2003, 01:13:58 PM: Mudda fuhka!

Who deleted meh post?
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: clips on December 05, 2003, 01:20:29 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Spudz
Mudda fuhka!

Who deleted meh post?

i have never heard of that one bfore... hilarious :laughing: :laughing:
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: Paul2 on December 05, 2003, 03:49:02 PM: I remember this part vaguely:
I am not going to type words by words out of the book since i cant remember words by word but here goes:
I can\'t remember the girl that died from car accident so i named her Margie.

"As the car ran over Margie, she fell down and lay in a weird position. You can still see her left breast flapping, but there is no heartbeat underneath it."

Maybe the reason why I remember this part must be how "slick" the author wrote it. Not sure which page it is, but nearly at the end of the book. It been over 2 years already since I read it in school. Anybody is reading it in school right now? If so, can you write down that part.
Title: The Great Gatsby
Post by: unknown on December 05, 2003, 03:57:20 PM: Read the book a few years ago and watched the movie also, I would like to have lived in those times. A man could make a bunch of cash with the prohibition law back then, speakeasy anyone ;)?