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Old March 3rd, 2007 #18
Sándor Petőfi
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I read "The Great Gatsby". I read it in school but got nothing out of it at the time. Now I can see the point of the story is "Crime Does Pay in Modern America - If you are a Jew".
I thought it was about white decadence and decline. Hence the ironic references to racial historicism by Tom Buchanan: Fitzgerald isn't ridiculing Stoddard, but the modern state of white men.

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My copy of the book explains in a note that the Jewish gangster using the swastika in the book is not a Nazi, that the swastika was an innocent symbol in those days. But I think the swastika had already been officially adopted as an Aryan, anti-Semite, proto-Nazi symbol at the time the book came out. I say, the use of the swastika DOES mean the Jew Gangster in the story was connected to/supporting the Nazi movement, probably for Zionist gangster purposes.
None of Fitzgerald's symbols is coincidental; that must be especially true of one as obscure as the Swastika.