More on The Great Gatsby and two poems
More from the novel. Gatsby treats Carraway as a confidant and tells him midway through the book: “And she doesn’t understand. She used to be able to understand. We’d sit for hours–” Carraway goes on to narrate that, “one autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when leaves were falling and they came to a place where the sidewalk was white with moonlight.”
My understanding is that F.S. Fitzgerald made a mistake by marrying Zelda. And in a way this novel is displacement through fiction about that mistake. Sometimes even otherwise intelligent people don’t realize the mistakes they are making as they make them.
Two silly poems:
“Pun-sibbley” by yours truly
“Pun-sibbley, you are being punished for good reason. You may deserve it. Don’t swerve it.”
“If you say so, Mr. Man.”
“Pun-ography” by yours truly
“May we speak more, sir, of your pun-ography addiction? ”
“Yes, doctor, sometimes when pun home, I get pun-ded urges to see a nude woman.”
“Pun-kay, it is normal human pun-xuality. Just don’t do anything about it in pun-blic. That would be pun-scene.”
“I pun-derstand.”