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...reader (Scott Shepherd), who transforms from an everyman office drone into “Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, casually begins reading the book on the pretext of waiting for his ancient, uncooperative computer to start up. Despite receiving odd looks from fellow employees, he continues reciting the text aloud. Soon, the play subtly shifts, and each one of the nobody office workers is cast in a role, drafted into the reader’s imaginary Fitzgeraldian world, where the romance, humor, and brutality of “Gatsby” are all poignantly real...
...Nick Carraway explains in The Great Gatsby—which I read because my high school and the writers of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition test luckily did believe in Great Books—that he is going to take up a heavy reading schedule so that he can become “that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’” It is embarrassing that Harvard believes a medley of irrelevancies will prepare students for “life beyond college,” and even more...
...buildings; reality shows would stop humiliating people; comedians would stop being ironic. Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly envisioned a day when American men would again be able to wear fedora hats without smirking. It was a fleeting moment for cultural critics who, like The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway, longed to see the world "in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever...
...this summer, in search of new experiences and sights and sounds alien to the East Coast of my childhood, I kept one line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in mind, hoping it would ring as true for me as it had for Nick Carraway. "I was simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life," Fitzgerald wrote...
...Florio-Bunten, who was convinced of Simpson's guilt, never wrote a book, nor tried to. Petrocelli had also learned that Pat McKenna, the defense investigator who had worked in the criminal trial, was again working for Simpson. The roil about the jury ended with the dismissal of Rosemary Carraway, the lone black juror. As it turned out, her daughter worked for the L.A. district attorney's office. A nervous Petrocelli argued to keep her on the panel because he felt she had done nothing intentionally wrong; the Simpson defense wanted...