The scene where they moved Ben from the beach to the rowboat was very Great Gatsby-ish, what with the pastel clothing, umbrellas, and rowboat...

The Great Gatsby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby)

I'd have to do more homework...

Maybe it's just me, and there is no connection.:redface:

Perhaps it is an allusion that The Others are the elite society, in the LOSTverse.

i read the book last year at school, i dont really see a connection. The Great gatsby was about the upperclass of american sociaty and how corrupt and snoody it was, thats just my opinion though.

i read the book last year at school, i dont really see a connection. The Great gatsby was about the upperclass of american sociaty and how corrupt and snoody it was, thats just my opinion though.
Well, there ya go...like I said, perhaps an allusion to The Others being the elite society?;)

there is no way this relates to the great gatsby. trust me I know that book like the back of my hand and actually wrote a thesis on it's author F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is no relation.

I noticed the pastel colors on the others too... and not just there- the part with Cindy and the kids, most of them were donned in pastels as well. For some reason that just seems to be the color palette for at least parts of Othersville. I didn't make a connection to The Great Gatsby though.

i agree. no connection with the great gatsby. i've read the book several times and i don't think there is any intentional link. and i'd point out that the only link to the great gatsby that was suggested here is an asthetic link (pastels, boats, umbrellas) that has more to do with someone's memory of the movie than the book.

Well, there is the whole "He walks among us, but he is not one of us" theme.

Anyone?

Certainly one of you Gatsby fans have some thoughts on the "not one of us" outsider motif. Jay Gatsby certainly fits the bill to my reckoning.

Aur