Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Thomas Sutpen and James Gatz. I love The Greay Gatsby because it paints a vivid picture of The Jazz Era in America. I also appreciate the character of Gatsby because he is such a mystery until the end of the novel.

And her exploration of whiteness through the lens of blackness. According to both Morrison and Dyer, whiteness as a category of power gains its substance through negation. It is defined always in reference to what it is not, hence degrading representations of blackness contribute to a positive white image.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. On a weird side note, the first thing that popped into my head in class when we were talking about the creepy side of sympathy was sympathy pregnancies. This is a condition in which the husband or partner of an expectant mother experiences some of the same symptoms and behavior as the mother.