Today I'm thinking about this article about Snooki from that Jersey Shore show.
I haven't had cable in ages. I have a little bit of a thing for MTV. I was a kid when we last had cable and I recalled distinctly seeing Stevie Ray Vaughn's video for Crossfire on it. I fell in love with that music. I was also curious about The Real World and the whole concept of a house filled with different people being able to get along and have a life together. (Little did I know that that was not what reality TV is all about, but it was early days.)
I was just wondering, as I read about Snooki's wedding, about the theme. It says that it was The Great Gatsby themed and I wonder if it was just patterned after the recent film adaptation or if Snooki or her husband have actually read the book and understood it.
It's a book about excess, about the perils of social status, about the changes happening in the world and the ways that the world stayed the same. Those fantastic parties that Jay Gatsby throws are a means to seduce a woman he wanted way back when she didn't feel he was good enough for her and he does things -- potentially sacrificing his freedom but for an even more tragic turn of already tragic events -- that she still doesn't appreciate.
Wow - what a theme for a wedding! Nothing like a little tragedy for your happy day.
So, reading this made me think it's a bit sad that a person who is seeking to change her fortune with the fame (or infamy) of television chose to follow the pattern of a film based on a book that is all about how those excesses don't truly change the underlying person and that, despite surface changes, those that a person changes for can't really be expected to change their colors in a true way.
Let's hope that it was an uneducated misstep and not a symbol of things to come. Better a happy marriage than really having a Gatsby themed life.
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