13
Our club's take on 'The Great Gatsby' did a total 180 after a member brought in a 1920s newspaper
For years, we'd just seen it as a tragic love story, but reading actual ads and articles from 1922 New York City made the obsession with status and the emptiness of the parties click for everyone. The debate shifted from 'Was Gatsby noble?' to 'Was anyone in that world even real?' It completely changed our monthly discussion last Tuesday. Has your group ever had a single piece of context flip the script on a classic book?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
terryk1013d ago
Our group read "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the tenth time. Then a teacher friend brought in the actual 1936 state textbook used in Alabama schools. Seeing the racist "science" lessons kids were given made Atticus seem less like a perfect hero and more like a man just doing the bare minimum in a broken system. It split the room right down the middle. Tbh we still haven't fully settled that argument.
3