Okay so this is 150% not a troll post. I went to the F. Scott Fitzgerald society conference in Paris in 2011, and I have the last line of Gatsby tattooed on my left wrist. I'ma die-hard here and not someone looking ot get a rise out of everyone.

I genuinely want to know what this educated group thinks of Nick Carraway being gay, or at least, infatuated with confusing feelings twoards Gatsby.

I can (and we all) could obviously go back and quote the way that Nick describes the men in this book, from Tom and Gatsby, and the way he differentialy describse the women like Jordan, who he seems to have no real interest in (even though my girl Jordan is my favorite character in the entire book).

While growing up reading this and having each read ascribe more and more meaning to me personally, it became clearer to me that Nick was......not in love, not infatuated, but drawn in a way more than just a normal friend like way to Gatsby.

The way he excused Gatsby's behavior throughout the book, while, as the book went on he came to increasingly question hsi admiration of Gatsby, as we all do (male or female, straight or gay, realize that the person we idealize is not the person they appear to be).

And isn't that a mjor point of the book, coming from the way Gatsby idealized Daisy, in that same way putting someone on a pedastal when we're all just human?

As the book went on it became clearer and clearer that Nick was infatuated with Gatsby.

Lines that come to mind are the entire segment that Nick woke up in bed with the previously described "flamboyant" art enthusiast he met before Gatsby's party and then got so drunk he couldn't remember.

Or when Tom used the phrase (and i'm butchering this) "he threw dust in your eyes just like he did to Daisy", indicating that he was able to use his charm and reel someone in to fall into the Gatsby fantasy, somethign that a "rugged man" like Tom would never fall into.

Granted these are all stereotypes, but look at the time period.

Nick was the last person to talk to Gatsby, and one of the only ones at his funeral. The only man that really got to know Gatsby for who he was.

I'm not in ANY way insinuating that this is a novel about a gay romance. I belive it's a novel, as Fitzgerald intended, of pursuing that Americna dream so passionately you're willing to do anything, and to be so enraptured by your goal that you end up tying people and things into metaphors and symbols of what it meant to have the world at your fingertips.

Gatsby had Daisy. But Jordan saw through Nick, realizing what he realy wanted out of life. And it was yet another dream that would not be realized. Part of hwy Nick identified with Gatsby so much; two men that wanted something so badly they were able to overlook the many flaws (gambling, adultery, lies) in order to just hope, just hope that htey could be the one to take that person in, change them, and live a life they have dreamed of.

This realization has taken on an entire new meaning for me, and I don't know if there are others but again, even though it is just another layer in the hollow pursuit of success that all our characters, Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan, Myrtle, and George go through, its one that is often overlooked.