Literary Quote of the Day: “It Didn’t Make Sense to Me”

The first time I read The Great Gatsby I thought Gatsby was cool. Then I got older and realized Gatsby is kind of pathetic. Perhaps I’m being judgmental, unlike Nick Carraway. Intro Music Nick doesn’t drink very often, but when he does it’s usually at an apartment in New York with his cousin’s husband and […]

Literary Quote of the Day: “Nothing Except a Single Green Light”

There are very few things Greater than Gatsby and you’re participating in two of them at the same time: (1) Summer Vacation; (2) This podcast. It’s already page 24 and we really haven’t met the titular man of the novel. Here’s how Nick describes his first (kind of) encounter with the Jay Gatsby: Quote: He […]

Teaching the Great Gatsby

There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the […]