Sleeping In The Great Gatsby

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Everyone knew these people in high school, the popular one, the wannabe, the nerd and the one who is always sleeping. The popular one tends to always have someone to talk to in the hallways and has a full weekend planned. The wannabe is in the popular group but never talks much and just seems to laugh along with the cool kids because they are afraid to be kicked out of this group.The nerd is always studying and never has time to do anything else but study. The sleepy one doesn’t do very well in class because... they are always sleeping. The only thing these people have in common is one thing, they all are in school and live in the same society. Just like in the West Egg in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Naturally, you see all of these …show more content…

She is a lovely lady but seems to have some problems like only a sophisticated “beautiful fool” would(118).For example, about 5 years ago Gatsby and Daisy had a wonderful love affair but due to that love affair, she did not want to marry Tom. She did not want to marry him so bad that she got really drunk on her wedding night and did this “She began to cry- she cried and cried. I rushed out afn found her mother’s maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. She wouldn’t let go of the letter”(76). In addition to not wanting to marry Tom Buchanan , she also is a bit of a player. When she was at one of Gatsby’s parties, she says this to Nick: “If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card”(104). Now Tom was not a saint either but she should not be fighting fire with fire. If it wasn't for her love affair with Gatsby, she would not be doing all these busy things to keep her mind off of it. She's been partying and supposedly sleeping with other men while she is married. Her young love for Gatsby is something she knows she can not have so she tries to compensate by marrying an abuser and having affairs to get over him. This also may be to get back at Tom for being seen with the maid one day after their wedding night and never being faithful since. Daisy is a busy girl and the fact that she is so …show more content…

George Wilson is the worn out old man who is married to young Mrs. Myrtle Wilson. He owns a tire shop in east egg which seems to get a lot of business which makes him very tired, Myrtle can't stand when he is tired or basically anything else that he does. When Nick met Myrtle for the first time, Catherine, Myrtle’s sister, told him that Tom and Myrtle “...{can't} stand the person they’re married to…. What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them. If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away” (33). But as Daisy continued to stay with Tom and Myrtle continued to stay with George. George continued to be “... all run down” and Myrtle continued to have an affair and it was the same old, same old until that fateful night (123). Myrtle and George were fighting and she started walking across the road, still yelling at him when, BAM! A car drove her right over cutting her in two. Mr. Wilson was shocked and devastated. But then something snapped in the poor withering man so he seeked revenge and he knew just where to find it. He shot Mr. Gatsby in his pool and then slowly died knowing his job was complete. This sharp shift in personality for Mr. Wilson is a sign that people can break out of our old ways but not for the better. He was a very normal tired old man but then once he witnessed a murder his character changed to an

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