My dearest son Nick, It has been too long since you have heard from me, the most caring mother out there. I can’t help myself but be here for you, whether you think you need a wise mothers words or not. Infact, a mother knows what's best for her child, that is just a fact. Now, I know how much you enjoy being independent, as you are this gifted writer so, all I am asking is for you to just read and take into consideration of my thoughts for what is best for you. I am so proud of all of your hard work and this big spontaneous move, New York! I know you have many dilemmas in your life right now, that I have heard spiraling all around you in different directions. Your cousin Daisy, wrote to me and filled me in on so much I had never heard about. I felt like I didn't even know you with all the things she was saying and the hard paths you must be going through right now. Seeing you mentioned in different articles did not help your case either. I don't want to seem like a wacky helicopter mom, just know I love you so profoundly. let me first go over all the predicaments you're in so we can make a plan. Besides, acceptance is the first key to recovery! …show more content…
First off, Daisy mentioned a girl named Jordan, I guess her best friend? Anyways, she said that she set you up with her and that you guys would be the perfect match. Daisy also said that it seems like you have been avoiding Jordan. I myself, saw in the paper of her being accused of cheating in a golf match. I know you so well, i’m quite sure that is the reason for the avoiding. The importance of honesty and trust is so important to you, I wouldn't want it anyother way. Are you sure you are going over all the factors though before you decide upon Jordan? I know, I know, you are probably thinking, what will a lame mother have to say about a girl that can help you decide? But here me out later, as my advice could possible aid your heart. The next bit of dilemma is keeping all your values during the chaos and different people in New York. You have always done wonders of your commitment to certain personal values of being friendly and courteous to others while having strong loyalty and commitment. This must be hard to sustain, as you are in a place where society accepts a lot of drinking, gambling, and philandering. You are such an honest and truthful person, I know that you want to avoid these temptations without being rude to new people. Going to Gatsby's parties and being with these groups of high marked figures such as gatsby himself must be extremely difficult. You might even feel like you need to act a certain way to meet people's expectations but, I assure you, there are other options to maintain this. As your values of life will still be kept because those traits are what make you my prodigious son. The last dilemma and certainly the most important, is the somewhat love triangle between Daisy, Gatsby and Tom.
You being in the jiffs of it all makes it more of a confusing square for that matter. Holy moly! I think I must have seen this in twenty articles! This proving, there are lots of issues to take on here. I heard that Daisy’s Husband, Tom is having an affair with another woman. Wow. This is a challenging matter whether to stay out of it or help your cousin Daisy. All while Daisy and Gatsby have long lost history. Gatsby is a new friend of yours. I believe one to whom you are so curious about. While on the other hand Daisy is family. It will be impossible to keep both of their feelings in place. Someone will have to be hurt. But what if everyone somehow met in the middle. And should you even get involved? Ill explain,
later. I have made you a daily schedule below, to help you get through your days. This may seem cuckoo crazy and even excessive. I do believe however, this will help you get your priorities straight and help solve all your puzzles. Later on, you will see my advice and how this schedule will come in place to really make your life in order and keep you gratified.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece and prehaps even one of the
In addition to Gatsby’s dishonesty with others, he is dishonest with himself. Gatsby has fabricated a dream—a fictional reality—in his mind. He wants Nick’s cousin, Daisy, whom he met five years prior to the story’s beginning, to marry him. However, this marriage could never happen, because Daisy is already married to an East Egg man named Tom, with whom she has a child. Despite the odds, Gatsby continues to push Daisy towards breaking it off with Tom.
The entire book revolves around his one selfish desire to be with the woman he loves, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby is well aware that Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, but that does not stop him. Gatsby and Daisy begin seeing each other and spending a great amount of time together. This was not enough to satisfy Gatsby. One night, he and Tom, Daisy’s husband, were in dispute.
As depicted by Scott F. Fitzgerald, the 1920s is an era of a great downfall both socially and morally. As the rich get richer, the poor remain to fend for themselves, with no help of any kind coming their way. Throughout Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, the two “breeds” of wealthier folk consistently butt heads in an ongoing battle of varying lifestyles. The West Eggers, best represented by Jay Gatsby, are the newly rich, with little to no sense of class or taste. Their polar opposites, the East Eggers, are signified by Tom and Daisy Buchanan; these people have inherited their riches from the country’s wealthiest old families and treat their money with dignity and social grace. Money, a mere object in the hands of the newly wealthy, is unconscientiously squandered by Gatsby in an effort to bring his only source of happiness, Daisy, into his life once again. Over the course of his countless wild parties, he dissipates thousands upon thousands of dollars in unsuccessful attempts to attract Daisy’s attention. For Gatsby, the only way he could capture this happiness is to achieve his personal “American Dream” and end up with Daisy in his arms. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy is somewhat detrimental to himself and the ones around him; his actions destroy relationships and ultimately get two people killed.
Nick begins the novel with wise advice his father once told him, “‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”’(1). Nick starts off by reminding himself and informing that throughout the story, save your judgements to yourself and try to put yourself in his or her position. His words are also a reminder that in society today, people tend to judge too quickly and we need to remember that everyone is not in the same position as we are. There will always be someone more or less fortunate than us, and we must be grateful for what we are given.
There lies a child within every human being. No matter how small, some sense of freedom and hope tends to endure in adults, as they once experienced youth. While Tom, Daisy and Jordan exhibit how they share this feeling in the novel, this youthful instinct most evidently appears in the behaviors of Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Because they never learn how to survive in the real, adult world, their uncontrollable attitudes catalyze their early deaths. In F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby represent childlike desire and the corruption of maturity in the 1920s. Their deaths signify the actuality that childhood terminates, exposing the inevitable reality of adulthood.
I sometimes regret bringing gatsby and daisy together for that afternoon of tea or even meeting Gatsby in the first place or even moving next door to him, of course I didn't know I was going to live by the most interesting and complicated man I have ever met in my life. His yellow roadster was ripping throw the street, the glissining of his bright yellow paint job as it ripped through the trees and brush just as a Warbler would.
In the novel , The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is shown loving Daisy throughout the novel, but is it real? Gatsby thinks he is loving Daisy, but it might just be her filling in a hole in his life. Gatsby’s actions and characteristics make it seem like he cannot actually love Daisy. He is too bent on the past Daisy rather than focusing on the Daisy in front of him. Gatsby says it is love that is shown for Daisy, but it is also obsession and her filling in a piece of his dream.
A moment in time that I hold close to myself is the funeral of my grandmother. It occurred a couple of weeks ago on the Friday of the blood drive. The funeral itself was well done and the homily offered by the priest enlightened us with hope and truth. But when the anti-climatic end of the funeral came my family members and relatives were somberly shedding tears. A sense of disapproval began creeping into my mind. I was completely shocked that I did not feel any sense of sadness or remorse. I wanted to feel the pain. I wanted to mourn, but there was no source of grief for me to mourn. My grandma had lived a great life and left her imprint on the world. After further contemplation, I realized why I felt the way I felt. My grandmother still
The Great Gatsby tells a story of eight people during the summer of 1922 from the observation of Nick Carraway. It's a story about trying to achieve the unattainable, deceit, and tragedy. It takes place around the character Jay Gatz who becomes Jay Gatsby in an attempt to change his persona and attract his long lost love, Daisy. In Nick's telling of the story, Nick and everyone who knew Gatsby, thought he was great. Gatsby threw lavish parties at his beautiful mansion every weekend. He had money, even though no one really seemed to know how he made his money. Gatsby spends years of his life trying to win the heart back of Daisy Buchanan. When they met years ago, he was in the Army and didn't have much money. Daisy came from a wealthy family and she couldn't marry a poor man. This is what drives Jay Gatz to become Jay Gatsby and impress the girl to get her back.
A tragic hero can be defined as literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. A well known novel in American Literature is The Great Gatsby which displays an example of a tragic hero. The author of the book, F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrayed an example of a tragic hero through the main character of the novel named Jay Gatsby. In the book Gatsby tries to accomplish the American Dream by gaining wealth and doing everything in his power to be with the love his life Daisy Buchanan. His whimsical ways granted him wealth and allowed him to be in the arms of his lover Daisy but, it also leads him to death. Jay Gatsby can be considered a tragic hero because he has a tragic flaw and because his misfortune was not wholly deserved.
Throughout “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald an image of greatness is portrayed. In my opinion, Gatsby is not great. Although he is a caring person and his intentions are good with what he does, he is not great. Social class, insecurities, and love sway Gatsby’s decision to be the way he is. Bootlegging and lying are the qualities that do not make him great. His greatness diminishes throughout this novel. Throughout this novel there is a difference between perceived greatness and actual greatness. Overall, Gatsby was not great.
In this story by F. Scott Fitzgerland the characters are Jay, Nick, Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, Catherine, Henry C. Gatz, Dan Cody, Ewing Kilpspringer,
Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities.
You have 10 seconds to choose... 9 you see the love of your life across the room... 8 as you start walking up to her a man grabs his/her hand... 7 as you look down at the two hands you notice a ring on a very distinct finger... 6 your heart sinks to the bottom of your chest... 5 you start to think of ways to get him/her back... 4 you think if ruining his/her marriage will be worth it for that one person... 3 you question your morals and what others would think about you if you did the unthinkable... 2 do you be selfish and ruin the one you loves marriage or do you let the marriage be with hopes of moving on.. 1. NOW YOU CHOOSE. The Great Gatsby which was written during the 1920s where the era was quoted “...the first decade to have a nickname: