Thanksgiving is a holiday of family, food and hopefully most importantly thankfulness. Anyone who is fortunate enough to be sitting at a table with other people enjoying a meal, should be counting their blessings. After having a wonderful thanksgiving with people I care about, makes me wonder how the characters from The Great Gatsby would treat thanksgiving. My best guess is simple. They would do the exact opposite of the very word Thanksgiving. To start, these people would not be thankful. They would criticize and critique themselves and each other. Nothing is enough, eight turkeys dressed to perfection? Nope, the meat is dry. A table set for 300, each place setting adorned with monogrammed napkins? Childs play, for I heard Lucy had 800 people over with champagne glasses filled with elephant tears. And so on and so forth. Secondly, people from the book would not give without expecting something in return. Whether it was fame, fortune, or general bragging rights. Needless to say there truly would not be any Happy Thanksgivings in the land of The Great Gatsby.
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