Terrill (and list)--
My thanks to Terrill for giving his reasons for naming Gatsby
as a candidate for top 100 Hardboiled characters--I'm sure
they'll show up someplace else today.
I have read "The Great Gatsby" four or five times, and I
think it is one of the best books in English, but most of Jay
Gatsby's hardboiledness is implied backstory and told from a
distance. To me, he is the ultimate sentimental boob--far
from
"without sentimentality."
I'd call him a somewhat tragic figure, but hardboiled? Nah .
. . especially if you read between the lines that Gatsby was
a great self-promoter.
Just another opinion.
But absolutly leave him on the list for a vote.
Jack Bludis
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