Hungry posted:

Haha, okay, holy poo poo. I'd forgotten how much of this book is rooted in British class structure stuff and postwar British anxiety about its place in the world, especially the opening chapters before Greece, which is really the emotional setup for the novel. This might seem like a very difficult question to quantify any answers to, but I am curious how much that's all going to make sense to a modern (American?) audience. When I first read the book I must have been maybe 15-16 years old and I barely remembered much about Nick, but now he's just the absolute worst, and only half of that is his attitude toward women; the other part is all about class.