McKee did not sleep together or even if Fitzgerald did not mean to imply as much, the fact that Mr. McKee and Nick are together in their underwear is not typical for two heterosexual men in the 1920s.
Yes, the novel describes Nick as standing beside his bed, lying half asleep in his underwear, but this doesn't immediately suggest casual gay sex. There really is too little information to confirm that Nick's relationship with Mr. McKee was anything more than casual friendship.
What takes places in the narrative gaps is a sexual encounter between Nick and Mr. McKee. Nick tells us in the scene that closes chapter two that he “was standing beside [Mr. McKee's] bed and [Mr.
Nick has been trying to leave the apartment but something keeps him there. Finally after the scene with the broken nose, he takes the chance to leave with the drunken Mr. McKee. Apparently, he puts the drunk fellow to bed out of kindness.
In a queer reading of Gatsby, Nick doesn't just love Gatsby, he's in love with him. In some readings, the tragedy is that Gatsby doesn't love him back. In others, Gatsby is as repressed as Nick, each chasing an unavailable woman to avoid admitting what he truly desires.
This inner conflict is symbolized throughout the book by Nick's romantic affair with Jordan Baker. He is attracted to her vivacity and her sophistication just as he is repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for other people.
Also, it should be noted that though Nick was in a sanitarium, he wasn't "crazy." He was diagnosed with things such as anxiety and depression.
Nick wipes the shaving cream from Mr. McKee's face while he was asleep.
But here's what we think is going on: Nick realizes that chasing a future dream just ends up miring us in the past. All of our dreams are based on visions of our past self, like Gatsby who in the past believed that he would end up with Daisy and who believed in the American myth of the self-made man.
After a brief relationship with a girl from Jersey City, Nick follows the advice of Daisy and Tom and begins seeing Jordan Baker.
McKee that it is there. Nick describes Mr. McKee as a “pale, feminine man” (Fitzgerald 30), and he is attracted enough to this “feminine” man enough to feel comfortable wiping shaving cream off his face. During this whole scene at a party, Fitzgerald has put in little effort to establish Nick as purely a straight male.
She runs into the road, intending to speak with him but she is hit and killed. The car fails to stop. There are witnesses to the incident, including the Wilsons' neighbour, Michaelis. Nick, Tom and Jordan, following in another vehicle, stop at the scene and learn of Myrtle's death.
Nick somehow ends up at the train station, waiting for the 4 am train to get back to West Egg. One interpretation of Nick going home with the photographer is that Nick is actually gay. We delve into this theory on NIck's character page.
Kalama Epstein as Jeremy, the eldest Thompson child, an overachieving high-school sophomore who is suspicious of Nick. He previously stole menus that Nick had printed to promote Franzelli's. He later comes out as gay to his family.
Nick and Jordan's relationship is unique in the novel—they're not having an affair, unlike Tom/Myrtle and Daisy/Gatsby, and they're not married, unlike Myrtle/George and Daisy/Tom.
Jordan conveys Gatsby's request to be invited to Nick's house when Daisy is present. The chapter ends with Nick embracing and kissing Jordan.
The Last Line of The Great Gatsby. The last sentence of this novel is consistently ranked in the lists of best last lines that magazines like to put together. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. So what makes this sentence so great?
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is especially famous for its final line: "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
“They're a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Nick addresses these words to Gatsby the last time he sees his neighbor alive, in Chapter 8.
He sees both the extraordinary quality of hope that Gatsby possesses and his idealistic dream of loving Daisy in a perfect world. Though Nick recognizes Gatsby's flaws the first time he meets him, he cannot help but admire Gatsby's brilliant smile, his romantic idealization of Daisy, and his yearning for the future.
What keeps Nick from sleeping? Thinking about Myrtle's death.
Nick claims that he got drunk for only the second time in his life at this party. The ostentatious behavior and conversation of the others at the party repulse Nick, and he tries to leave.
First, Luhrmann made the curious decision to begin the story with Nick Carraway (our first-person narrator played by Tobey Maguire) writing in a patient's journal after ending up in a mental hospital due to “morbid alcoholism, fits of anger, insomnia.” According to Mike Hogan's (Executive Arts and Entertainment Editor ...
Nick Carraway is in a sanitarium.
While it's never abundantly clear that narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is "writing" the book you're reading, he's certainly not writing it from a sanitarium.
In addition to suffering from post-traumatic stress, Nick has his heart broken by a French woman, Ella, who succumbs to the dual demons of privation and addiction.