Literary Composition Of The Great Gatsby

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Literary composition has been one of the most influential parts of the human race. It is used to share history, teach us, and entertain us. Novels are one of the most enticing forms of literature for a reader. They suck you into their plot. They cause us to establish relationships with the characters. Also, they inspire us to be more morally correct. Plays are also written compositions that are not only on a printed page, but also they are shown to us by actors who are right in front of us. Plays can also be used to teach us about human actions and the consequences of our actions because it is in fact right in front of us. Novels and plays will always seem to differ when you look at them from the same perspective as others. The way we can see …show more content…

We all have relationships, we all treat them with the same aspects of one another, but yet they’re all unique. We all know the saying of how kids save relationships right? Well it doesn’t seem to be the case when we look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, especially if the analyzer looks at the marriage of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. “And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (Fitzgerald 7). Daisy may have been known to be careless and indecisive, but Daisy also knows what it takes to be a successful and rich woman in the time they lived in. She knows that the best way for her child to be protected from the true nature of their world is if she were to be a fool. Daisy Buchanan has seen the side of society that trumps women to be powerful individuals within the novel. The reason why she wants her child to be a fool is because if she isn’t a fool she will start to question the society and how it treats the woman within said society. Daisy thinks it would be a better outcome if her daughter were to be a fool so she could marry rich and live a luxurious life without worrying about her position as a woman in their society. Relationships can be viewed as profitable for both sides. In the case of Hamlet, we can see how people will use relationships to get what they want out of the other person and offer nothing in …show more content…

The events that occurred in the summer of ‘22, however, gave him an aversion to the ways of the corrupt and dissolute, and his essential nature changed: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments… Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded

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