Yet more on Gatsby
More from the text and a response.
“The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
‘We can’t move,’ [say Daisy Buchannan and her friend Jordan Baker while relaxing on a couch].”
One of the things they said when I lived in Singapore was that the heat and humidity made it difficult to do work, and the people there needed to work against it.
The basic plot of the novel is that Gatsby wants Daisy back, even though she is married to another man. That man is also a bit evil and having an affair. I guess the novel is about decadence. Daisy seems a bit stupid or insane. FSF’s wife Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and basically killed herself in a North Carolina asylum. Fitzgerald left her and basically died of alcoholism in L.A. while trying to be a screenwriter.