It's the Redford thing. Hardboiled is not his middlename. I,
however, think you are bang on. It's a great book. Stay
well.
Tonio
>From: Terrill Lankford <
lankford2000@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Nominations
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:26:16 -0800
>
>
>
>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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