Do you agree with Tyson that this scene “suggest[s] a homoerotic sub-text that no queer critic would miss”?
Do you agree with Tyson that this scene “suggest[s] a homoerotic sub-text that no queer critic would miss”?
July 23, 2019Compare and contrast the film version of The Great Gatsby with the written version of This Side of Paradise.
July 23, 2019Do you agree with Tyson that this scene “suggest[s] a homoerotic sub-text that no queer critic would miss”?
Question Description
Please be familiar or have access to the reading. answer doesn’t not need to exceed a couple of paragraphs but more can be written if you want.
Please review Lois Tyson’s queer reading of The Great Gatsby in Critical Theory Today (“Will the Real Nick Carraway Please Come Out?”), paying particular attention to her analysis of the scene in which Nick finds himself in Mr. McKee’s bedroom (pages 33-42 in the Bruccoli edition of The Great Gatsby).
Do you agree with Tyson that this scene “suggest[s] a homoerotic sub-text that no queer critic would miss”? If it’s not about what Tyson suggests it’s about, then what is it about? And just what (if anything) does it add to the novel as a whole?
