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I found a note in my copy of 'The Great Gatsby' that changed my view on Daisy
I was flipping through a used paperback from a shop in Portland and found a handwritten note from 1972 saying Daisy's voice was 'full of money' because Fitzgerald's wife Zelda said the same thing about herself. That tiny fact from a stranger's margin made me see Daisy's whole character differently, like she's not just shallow but trapped by her own wealth. Has anyone else had a book's physical object, like a note or underline, totally shift how you read a character?
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paulk426mo ago
Found a library book where someone had circled every time a "strong" female character was rescued by a man. Made the whole thing feel like a sad joke.
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bennett.claire6mo ago
Oh man, my friend got a secondhand copy of "Catcher in the Rye" where the last owner had just written "phony" in pencil next to like half the characters' names. It made her realize Holden was calling everyone out long before she even got to those parts, and she started reading it like a checklist of his anger.
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