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I wasn’t assigned it in high school English like many others so I’m late to the party and wanted to yap about it. Technically listened through audiobook because Jake Gyllenhaal’s voice and voice acting was really good.

I felt so sympathetic to Gatsby and started relating to him and it was so sad that he got screwed over and killed in the end!! It was also a bit disappointing that Nick and Jorden didn’t end up together, though from her reaction following Myrtle’s death I guess it makes sense.

I read someone’s summary on reddit that in the shortest way it’s about a wealthy couple named Tom and Daisy who have affairs and their main affair partners both die at the end due to them and they leave together or something and essentially yeah. I read another interpretation too of Daisy being more opportunistic and calculative than Nicks narration gave her credit for which I felt was an interesting and possibly fitting take.

I liked how in depth they characterised different people eg Tom being racist, abrupt, and essentially seen as immature (like a child by Nick at their last encounter). The scenes with Gatsby’s father at the end seemed a little overdone imo, like something to humanise him a bit more and give more context about him but I wondered why his mother wasn’t mentioned at this time.

Overall pretty sad book. The themes make sense and I can understand why it’s prescribed to high schoolers to analyse but I wondered too if it maybe inspired some impressionable young people to view women as fickle and imo the role of Tom’s wealth and family influence in letting him get away with affairs and covering up his wife’s murder and role in Gatsby’s murder should have been emphasised more, rather than his pushiness.

Yap over.

Especially for courses that heavily consider casper, knowing if I'm on the high or low end within a quartile makes a big difference. I know it's meant to be so we don't game the system/to emulate a real interview where specific feedback is not given, but application cycles are already uncertain enough. That's all just a minor vent.

Not sure if this is the correct flair but one of my parents made an alternative email address, started emailing me photos of myself from when I was a kid, sent an apology email that they reflected and realised my childhood was a bit turbulent then listed off some excuse reasons why.

This is a parent who would constantly lie to me about when one of my abusers would be in the house, who I scream cried at multiple times, who I often asked to go back to my other parents custody, who in the years leading up to me going no contact we had multiple issues and I asked for boundaries, explained the effect their actions were having on my mental health, what I needed etc many times. It just really struck me in the email they framed it as if they’d recently had the revelation that my childhood was not perfect.

I know that saying about the axe forgetting but the tree remembers, but genuinely I calculated my ACE score as 8, the police were involved on an occasion and should have been more involved. My parent is highly educated and accomplished and I find it so difficult to believe that such a level of cognitive dissonance could be possible but I think this email is the first time they have acknowledged a sliver of the fact that my childhood was not amazing.

Is it genuinely possible that they can like, forget or not really compute it, or are they world class actors