Love And Carelessness In The Great Gatsby

Love, and Things That Don't Matter

F.Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby” and e. e. Cummings, author of “anyone lived in a little how town” convey similar themes of love and carelessness through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction. Both selections reveal that love can lead to both good and bad results in the future.

In ‘The Great Gatsby”, the author uses a lot of imagery throughout the book in order to create a more vivid representation of love and carelessness. At the end of the story at Gatsby’s funeral, Fitzgerald described it by saying, “About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped a thick drizzle beside the gate- first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I…” (Fitzgerald 174) The description of the scene is very gloomy and dark which relates to the mood of his death because hardly anyone was there for him once he died. The rainy funeral ties into the whole situation that is occurring. On the other hand, in the poem “anyone lived in a little how town,” the author describes the people of the town by saying “Women and men (both big and small) cared for anyone not at all.” (cummings 5) This connects to The Great Gatsby because anyone can be referred to as a male character who no one really cares for, just like Gatsby.

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In The Great Gatsby, Nick says to Gatsby, “They're a rotten crowd… You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Fitzgerald 154) In this scene Nick is talking about Daisy and Tom about how they are careless people when it comes to Gatsby and his feelings. In “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” the author's way of writing is very abstract and the way the sentences are formed they can be read in many different ways. For example he says, “they said their nevers they slept their dream” (cummings 20) meaning they got married and lived out their lives