# Help Me Parody "The Great Gatsby"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413 "2003-04-27T00:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/1 "2003-04-27T00:45:59Z")
I have decided, for reasons of my own, to parody “The Great Gatsby”. So far, I’ve come up with 3 separate approaches: 1. Engage in the art of alternate endings, or, for the matter, alternative anything-else. 2. Insert Fitzgerald, his family, and his peers into the story. 3. Re-tell the story in the style of another noted author. Anyone with another approach? ---
**Author:** ![knock\_knock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/2 "2003-04-27T01:46:57Z")
change the identity of the narrator - either to one of the other characters or to someone completely different ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/3 "2003-04-27T01:53:57Z")
from the recent limerick thread, I summarised it as: A handsome ex-soldier named Jay, Turned to crime and he made it pay. He took up with Daisy Her husband went crazy And Wilson then blew Jay away. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/4 "2003-04-27T02:19:27Z")
I read somewhere that someone (Maybe Ice Cube) was going to remake it in an urban/hip hop setting. Now this isn’t a parody rather a remake, but I thought you might find it interesting. ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/5 "2003-04-27T02:49:37Z")
How about in the style of old 1950’s detective movies? You can have a private eye try to figure things out with only the information that the book ends with. Or you can stick them all in modern day LA. C’mon…there’s endless possibilities! Daisy on Prozac, the narrator with a neurotic Woody Allen complex… ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/6 "2003-04-27T14:22:35Z")
Does anyone have an author whom, if I were to re-write “The Great Gatsby” in their style, would create a hilarious parody? (I’m leaning towards either Ernest Hemingway or Bulwer-Lytton.) ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/7 "2003-04-27T17:45:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > **Does anyone have an author whom, if I were to re-write “The Great Gatsby” in their style, would create a hilarious parody?** Noam Chomsky. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/8 "2003-04-27T22:41:35Z")
James Joyce? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-parody-the-great-gatsby/171413/9 "2003-04-28T02:40:05Z")
I might do Chomsky, but I’d rather not do a 900-page version of “The Great Gatsby”, so Joyce is out.