The Wire: DAngelo Barksdale reads Gatsby

Awesome scene from The Wire wherein D'Angelo talks about The Great Gatsby.

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• The Wire
• The Great Gatsby
• D'Angelo

[Martunez]

I always thought that scene where Dee takes his girlfriend to the fancy restaurant was very Gatsby-esque: she says that with his money he can be anything he wants to be, but he remains skeptical. Now I see that that scene is very closely related to this one--that it sets up his reading of Gatsby. As an English teacher, I think this is an extremely powerful scene, an ideal example of making meaning from text and personal experience.

[breadcrumbsyeah]

this is my favourite scene in anything, ever.

[PieandBiscuits]

@ajbahus never thought about that... very ironic considering it was string that ordered the hit.. good stuff

[PieandBiscuits]

@kikomiko1 You woofing. D'angelo was the only smart guy in the show. If you saw it all you would realize, from day 1 you knew D wanted to get out of it, the rest were street thugs and pretty ignorant (besides a few including stringer, marlo or even omar, they were some smart ass niggas)...

[DRAVIDIAN718QUEENSNY]

@kikomiko1 i get it. u the type of person who wants to see them shoot up eachother instead of seeing them have intellectual conversations and debates about a relevant literary novel. and by the way D'angelo was on point with his analysis. I think u are the one who is phony...now get ya education lil man

[AMCsoldier]

@kikomiko1 You're completely wrong. They are relating the story to their own lives. Anyone is capable of doing that. The use of The Great Gatsby here is poetic and synchronous on the part of the writers, but Dee is merely bringing the story to his level; don't confuse the two concepts.

[kikomiko1]

The Wire is so phony. Like any of these guys would actually be capable of such profound analysis.

[ajbahus]

That sums up Stringer Bell pretty well. He could wear suits, go to business classes, try to start up his own company but he would never change his past. Stringer was from the streets and money came through drug and blood money. Even though he tried to say he was different, his past caught up with him.

[gzhukov4]

epic scene.  Much respect to David Simon and Larry Gilliard, Jr

[samhalal]

I find this scene resonates with Wallace's line: "This right here, this is me yo."

[PieandBiscuits]

If the wire was a book it'd be the greatest book ever written.. people would be all over it.. but instead it's still extremely underappreciated

[choiboi23]

@billma12345 You are great gatsby, you fake ass bitch.