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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby retold through Twitter Even though Twitter started as a page that was originally meant to connect people through messaging, it quickly evolved into something much bigger. People began releasing new forms of art and comedy, transformed its standard purpose and started using it as a medium of expression. They saw its potential to become something more and made it their own. The restriction to the 140-characters seemed to have “a broadening effect, redefining what it means to be published in the first place.” (Rudin). A multiplicity of satirical pieces were created, just like the work of two college students of the University of Chicago, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books …show more content…

The narrator brags and exaggerates on his own actions. The fact that the narrator seems to be very busy, would suggest that even though Nick criticised life in the Big City and saw it as shallow, he has adapted to this lifestyle and has taken some liking to it. Again between the novel and the tweet the events are put in the extreme. When in the book he states that “Most of the time I worked” (Fitzgerald 79) and had an brief encounter with a young woman, in the tweet it is taken into hyperbole with him spending his time with a woman and the “G-money” (Aciman, Rensin). Further indicator of this behaviour is his mention of Gatsby's …show more content…

He concludes that this probably happens “Every year.” (Aciman, Rensin). He is extrapolating this one event into something bigger without having any deeper knowledge which would put him into the position to be able to make such a remark. He is shocked to find out that it is possible to fix such an event, when in the novel he is well aware of the fact that it done. “[He] remembered of course that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919” (Fitzgerald 102). The new information he receives when at lunch with Gatsby in town, is that behind the whole scandal was just one person – Meyer Wolfhiem. Tom seems just to be impressed that “one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people” (Fitzgerald 102). The tweet ends with a rhetorical question, which implicates again a certain naivité of the

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He spends all his time with them so he can have the experience the upper class. His reality is that he is poor and is trying to climb the social class through influence instead of his job or self determination. Nick at times becomes envious because he can’t live the life that Gatsby has. ““Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” (pg.4/ Fitzgerald). Nick is envious of how Gatsby has a carefree and luxurious life and he is left with a terrible job and run down house.

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