Bludis Jack wrote:
> How did Jay Gatsby qualify?
>
> Jack Bludis
>
POSSIBLE SPOILERS for THE GREAT GATSBY
I'd say anyone who grew up poor, fought in W.W.I, killed a
couple of guys
(maybe), became a notorious bootlegger and gangster to get
close to a dame he was blood simple for, stalked her when he
found out she was married (even buying a house across the
lake from her place so he could "be close" to her), nailed
said married dame in her cousin's house while her husband was
at a party at his own house next door, tells her husband at a
cocktail party in a hotel room that he's taking his wife from
him, was in a speeding vehicle when his "girlfriend" ran over
her husband's trampy mistress and told her to just keep on
goin', and gets shot by the mistress's cuckolded husband (who
has been sent to kill him by his own girlfriend's pissed off
husband) - ought to qualify for a hard boiled
character.
Just one guy's opinion, though....
TL
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