{"id":1402684,"date":"2018-07-16T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402684"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:26:39","slug":"popular-novels-explained-by-the-characters-of-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/popular-novels-explained-by-the-characters-of-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Novels Explained by the Characters of <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/greatgatsbygenderswappedMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How would you explain the plot of <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i>? \u201cElizabeth is one of five unmarried daughters, there&#8217;s a dance, Darcy is hot but rude, everything works out in the end\u201d seems to be the standard response. But how would FICTIONAL CHARACTERS explain the plot of <i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> (or any other work of literature for that matter)? That&#8217;s what I wanted to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying I made a deal with the literary gods to bring the cast of <i>The Great Gatsby<\/i> to life just to have them explain the plots of various novels to me, but I&#8217;m also not saying I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you explain the plot of Pride and Prejudice? \u201cElizabeth is one of five unmarried daughters, there&#8217;s a dance, Darcy is hot but rude, everything works out in the end\u201d seems to be the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,21397,7064,24770,9733,24769,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402684"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}