Except if Stringer is Gatsby, who is Daisy? Yes, Avon is the love of his life and does ultimately betray him but Daisy was more money personified, I think Stringer's object of aspiration is at once more abstract and more literal than Gatsby's was. His Daisy is the whole world of legitimate business men, the green lights of the dockside developments.
I do think Stringer was D'Angelo's Bertha Dorset and I suppose McNulty could be his Seldon. He annoys me but so did Seldon.
The Wire as a Victorian novel New to me (I'm already obliquely spoiled for everything and I did it to myself) so absolutely best thing ever for August.
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:40 am (UTC)Yes, Avon is the love of his life and does ultimately betray him but Daisy was more money personified, I think Stringer's object of aspiration is at once more abstract and more literal than Gatsby's was. His Daisy is the whole world of legitimate business men, the green lights of the dockside developments.
I do think Stringer was D'Angelo's Bertha Dorset and I suppose McNulty could be his Seldon. He annoys me but so did Seldon.
The Wire as a Victorian novel New to me (I'm already obliquely spoiled for everything and I did it to myself) so absolutely best thing ever for August.