"I feeling" or "me feeling"

[chance22]

In the following sentence, can I replace "me" with "I"?
The three of us continued to meet at the dance, me feeling very much the gooseberry.
Could you help explain it? Thanks.

 

[probus]

No, I doesn't work there.

Also, I've never heard of anyone feeling like a gooseberry. What does it mean? Is it perhaps a translation of a Chinese expression?

 

[emsr2d2]

If you're the gooseberry, you're the third wheel. Imagine going out for a meal or similar with a couple who are in a romantic relationship. If they're all lovey-dovey, and you feel left out, you feel like the gooseberry. It might just be used in BrE.

Play gooseberry/feel like the gooseberry

 

[emsr2d2]

In the following sentence, can I replace "me" with "I"?
The three of us continued to meet at the dance, me feeling very much the gooseberry.
Could you help explain it? Thanks.

No, you can't use "I" there.

 

[SoothingDave]

If you're the gooseberry, you're the third wheel. Imagine going out for a meal or similar with a couple who are in a romantic relationship. If they're all lovey-dovey, and you feel left out, you feel like the gooseberry. It might just be used in BrE.

Play gooseberry/feel like the gooseberry

That's a "third wheel" in AmE.

 

[5jj]

I seem to be the exception in finding 'I' acceptable. It is 'I' not 'me' who is feeling the gooseberry.

 

[emsr2d2]

It is 'I' not 'me' who is feeling the gooseberry.

I agree but I can't imagine any native speaker saying ", ... I feeling very much the gooseberry".

 

[Tdol]

It doesn't do anything for me.