Negative emotions stop us from thinking and behaving rationally and seeing situations in their true perspective. When the negative emotion overrules a person then he tends to listen only to his inner voice, on which he has no control. Negative emotions should not be prolonged for a longer time and when it happens, the problem becomes more entrenched. Negative emotions, if not handled with patience and appropriate measures, it can lead to big disasters of any kind, for example, expressing anger with violence.
As mentioned earlier I would start my discussion with a very prominent emotion called Anger. Anger is defined as a person’s response to a threat or the perception of a threat against an individual or group. Anger is an emotion that is often difficult to control because of the intense physiological reactions involved in the fight or flight response that triggers anger. The fight response is a response triggered naturally by the body to protect itself against the instigating situation (Lazarus, 1991). In the novel The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald narrates two important incidents that stand as a fine example for expressing anger with violence i.e., 1) Tom hits Myrtle 2) Wilson kills Jay Gatsby.
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In the novel The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald narrates the story of the novel through Nick Carraway, a youthful gentleman from Minnesota who shifts to New York to learn about the bond business.
He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island surrounded by newly rich people. Nick is happen to see the garish display of wealth by his next-door neighbor a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a colossal Gothic mansion. Nick plans to meet his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick’s at Yale, who belongs to the reputable upper class society in the East Egg, a fashionable area of Long
Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman from whom Nick learns about Myrtle Wilson, the lover of Tom. Not long after this disclosure of adultery, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. Tom organizes a party with Myrtle and her close acquaintances. Nick tries to leave the party as he feels discomfort with the members of the party. During the party Myrtle grows louder and more intolerable the more she drinks and begins to talk about Daisy. Tom firmly tells her not to mention his wife. However, Myrtle angrily shouts Daisy’s name. Tom in fit of anger hits her by breaking her nose, bringing the party to an abrupt halt. According to Daniel, Tom and Daisy, the "careless people" who smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Thus it is more obvious to know that Tom was too careless about others’ and instantly reacts to Myrtle and breaks her nose and there are "bloody towels upon the bathroom floor."(Color 7) In another incident, Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, and come to find out that Gatsby’s car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby is determined to take the blame. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, is misguided by Tom. Tom takes the chance of interpreting the accident scene to his avenges against Gatsby and informs Wilson that Gatsby was driving the car that hit Myrtle. George, who has leapt to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her lover, finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and murders Gatsby, whose blood leaves "a thin red circle in the water." (Fitz 90)
It is New York in the 1920s. Nick Carraway moves to the West Egg from Minnesota. He lives in a small house next to Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who throws lavish parties, and decides he wants to know more about him. Then conflicts ensue about affairs and the secrets about all of the characters’ pasts. Nick, Daisy, and Tom (Daisy’s husband) “hang out” and later on, Gatsby joins on their travels. One day, when they are on an outing, Daisy hits Myrtle (Tom’s mistress) accidentally with Gatsby’s car and Myrtle dies. Tom then assures Daisy that they will cover up who killed Myrtle. Wilson thinks Gatsby killed his wife, so in a fit of madness goes to Gatsby’s house and kills him and
“The Great Gatsby” was a extremely sophisticated novel; it expressed love, money, and social class. The novel is told by Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick had just moved to West Egg, Longs Island to pursue his dream as a bond salesman. Nick goes across the bay to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan in East Egg. Nick goes home later that day where he saw Gatsby standing on his dock with his arms out reaching toward the green light. Tom invites Nick to go with him to visit his mistress Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, a mid class woman from New York. When Nick returned from his adventure of meeting Myrtle he chooses to turn his attention to his mysterious neighbor, Gatsby. Gatsby is a very wealthy man that host weekly parties for the
When one sees others with more, they feel an inner twinge of envy. Some are unhappy with their achievements because of forces that they could not control, or because they set their goal too high. Often times, people are disappointed by the result of a situation, because it did not become their expectations. It is through these events that cause one to act upon what they feel. For those feeling envy, one aims to climb higher than that other with more, to surpass them so that they do not feel this sense of dismay. At a young age, Gatsby hated the life he lived. Seeing the wealth that others held, Gatsby made sure that he would never have to continue living his modest life. For others with high expectations, when one sees an opportunity to get
It follows a stranger in the town of West Egg known as Nick. Nick is labeled as the new kind of rich, having lots of money but not for long. He lives the lavish lifestyle, going to big parties, attending fancy dinners, and enjoying time with people without doing any work. While at a party, he hears rumors about the man who threw the party. The rumors, like usual, are not good. The attendees claim that he murdered a man, something the mysterious figure will not disprove or prove. Suddenly, the mysterious man appears and talks to Nick. Nick learns that his name is Gatsby, a person under the group of old rich. Gatsby talks and talks, seemingly without end about truly nothing. However, Nick learns that the reason behind all these expensive parties is for a girl who goes by the name of Daisy. Daisy and Nick are relatively close, so Gatsby asks for a favor of Nick, and that is to ask Daisy for a chance with Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy had a thing before Gatsby went off to war, but things change during that time. When Gatsby returned Daisy was a mother with another man, even though she promised to wait for Gatsby. Gatsby, obviously still wants Daisy so he posses the deadly sin of lust. His lust for Daisy will eventually be his demise when he lies for her safety. Lust isn’t only shown through Gatsby however, Nick also shows lust in a way. His form of lust is for acceptance, he strives to be loved by everyone in
Do you ever think you would kill someone out of jealousy? Well, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he shows the worst of people when consumed by jealousy.
The East and West Egg are two opposite parts of Long Island. The East Egg is where people of old money reside, like Daisy and Tom, who have inherited the riches of the aristocracy. However, the West Egg is the home of the nouveau riche or new money. It is where Gatsby and Nick reside, who have accumulated great wealth on their own. Fitzgerald contrasts these two places and the characters from each Egg to highlight the cultural clash in the 1920’s between old and new money and the contrasting theme of corruption and morality.
He meets a particularly mysterious man, his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Through Gatsby, he meets people from the East Egg of Long Island, who are considered to be of "old money," wealth or business that has been inherited through generations. Over time, Nick and Jay became great friends. Nick helps Gatsby learn about himself and his aspirations in life, and vice versa.
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness” (Aristotle). The general definition of madness is “mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it,” but many writers see it differently; many writers like Emily Dickinson believe madness to be the “divinest sense” and that it should be viewed with a “discerning eye.” Madness is a part of life, and although difficult for a time, it enriches the understanding each person shares with another about the world: whether or not this understanding is in fact positive or negative knowledge. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald examines the corrupt madness induced by the consumption of and seemingly reasonable desire for wealth.
East Egg is home to the more prominent established wealth families. Tom's and Daisy's home is on the East Egg. Their house, a "red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay" with its "wine-colored rug[s]" is just as impressive as Gatsby's house but much more low-key (Fitzgerald 11)(13). East egg and Tom's home represents the established wealth and traditions. Their stable wealth, although lacking the vulgarity of new wealth, is symbolic of their empty future and now purposelessness lives together. The House also has a cold sense to it according to Nick. This sense symbolizes Tom's brutality, and as Perkins's says in his manuscript to Fitzgerald "I would know...Buchanan if I met him and would avoid him," because Tom is so cold and brute (Perkins 199).
The story takes place in an area near New York called "Long Island." It is in a shape of an egg. They focus in on places on there named "East Egg", "West Egg", and "The Valley of Ashes." West egg is for people who have recently made their fortunes. The characters Nick and Gatsby live there. The Valley of Ashes is for people who are not wealthy. The Wilson family lives there. The East Egg is for people who inherit their money. The characters Daisy and Tom live there. Daisy is a distant cousin one removed of Nick’s. One of her friends is a character named Jordan baker.
...and the upper middle class members mixed in the neighborhood, creating a disturbing mix. West Egg provided a direct confrontation to the establishment that disturbed the rich such as Daisy Buchanan (107). The residents of the city have foreign names like “Joens”, “Muldoon”, and “Eckheart” with uncouth professions such as actors and politicians (63). Epitomizing the qualities of the people and the buildings of West Egg is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby possesses a house designed to imitate royalty. However, Gatsby fills that very house with the risque parties, juxtaposing the old idea of wealth with a new one. The juxtaposition between the two ideas strongly characterizes the West Egg resident.
Nick finds out a few days after his move that an adored man by the name of Jay Gatsby lives next door to him. He hears about the parties that he throws and such from a friend of his cousin Daisy. He meets Daisy Buchanon, her husband Tom Buchanon, and friend Jordan Baker, at their house in East Egg. This is when everything begins to unravel. Nick is then invited to Gatsby 's party and attends it. After the party it is very apparent that Nick is intrigued in Gatsby. He even watches the party unwind, "There was music from my neighbor 's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before." (3.1) Nick eventually meets up
The acts of violence in The Great Gatsby convey more meaning than merely being acts of aggression. In The Great Gatsby, a lot of the violence came from Tom as there were signs of him hurting Daisy and when he broke Myrtle Wilson’s nose in the hotel room. According to Thomas Foster and the novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor, violence comes from misunderstanding and letting your emotions carry you away. A lot of people use their emotions and create violence because they do not know how to deal with their pain. Like in the Great Gatsby, there are many open examples of violence. Fitzgerald foreshadows a lot of acts of violence like when the car crashes at his party. On page 137 in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald gives details about how
The passage of this commentary comes from Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. In this passage, Nick goes to East Egg to see his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. He is also introduced to Jordan Baker, a famous golfer. East Egg is a place in Long Island where people with ‘old’ money reside, while West Egg contains individuals with ‘new’ money. In this passage, Fitzgerald highlights how wealth and character coincide to produce the superficial benefits of living in East Egg.
A seemingly easy read, The Great Gatsby has won over critics around the world, and rightfully so, has become one of today's greatest classics due to its complex literary content. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, grew up in the Midwestern United States and went to school at Yale University. Returning home after traveling a great deal, he is discontent and decides to move to the East in 1922, renting a house in Long Island's West Egg section. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy neighbor living next door in a lavish mansion where he holds many extravagant weekend parties. His name is mentioned while Nick is visiting a relative, Daisy. As it turns out, Jay Gatsby had met Daisy five years before while in the military. Meanwhile Gatsby spent all of his effort after the war to buy his mansion through shady business dealings in order to be nearer to Daisy in the hope that she would leave her rich husband, Tom, for him. Daisy is impressed by Gatsby's wealth and the two begin spending much time together, raising the suspicions of Tom who had also has his own affair with a gas station owner's wife, Myrtle Wilson.