I'm not sure how you would read the Cliff's Notes for The Great Gatsby and not see it as a scathing indictment of excess. I think marketers will be marketers and I think asking kids to read The Great Gatsby and then ask them what their "green light" is is an exercise that could go wrong easily... but I think there's some undue editorialization here. Gatsby is a tragedy and an unambiguous one. The fact that everyone is getting all twitterpated about what it all means is a sure sign that those writing the articles haven't read it in far too long. Carey Mulligan caught a ration of shit for saying she was playing Daisy like a Kardashian... but she's right, dammit. Daisy is nothing more than a skinny Kardashian from the '20s and F. Scott Fitzgerald busted ass to show it. The problem is we have a media machine that presumes that "being a Kardashian" is a good thing because we're so far down the wormhole that we're no longer thinking about this shit.