The Great Gatsby Identity Analysis

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Life is like a body of water: unpredictable. Nick Carraway starts the narration of The Great Gatsby with, “In my younger and more vulnerable years…” I’ve come to realize the story is greatly about how the past affects our present and our identities. The past is something that affects everything we do. We learn what to take from it and what to leave behind. It’s towards the end of my sophomore year, and like the Native Americans, I have to decide what to take with me and what to leave behind. On Thursday, August 17, the Smithville High School building was freshly covered in welcome back decorations with the “Warrior Strong” theme in every hallway, and I was feeling pretty confident and relaxed. Unsurprisingly, the first day of school was filled …show more content…

As a community, we cheered for our Warriors and raised money to help the city of Smithville, Texas. At the game, I was surrounded by friends. The football team won their game that night, causing everyone to feel like a winner, except the other team. I was definitely a winner when my mom came through with something for me to wear to the homecoming dance. The torso part of the dress was white lace. The bottom half flowed and was a cream color. I had shoes that were jewel encrusted that exposed my toes. I spent more time on my hair and makeup than I did last year because I found myself unhappy with how they looked last year due to the amount of time I gave myself. I bravely went by myself, having faith that it would turn out okay. It was at homecoming that I watched my friends enter together, dance together, and not care that I wasn’t a part of their group that night. I was offered to dance with them a couple of times which I did accept, but the thought of their offers being out of pity and not desire for me to be with them didn’t sit well with me. The person I called my longtime best friend did not put in the effort a best friend should include me. At the beginning of the night a requested a picture with him, but by the end of the night, I no longer wanted one. I found other friends throughout the night. I was a message in a bottle never getting to the person it was …show more content…

December, a month representing holidays and my birthday, also represents cold and ending. December loomed with ending events for classes. I had dipped my toe into challenging classes, fell in, and regretted even thinking about removing my shoe. I now had no excuse for avoiding the requirement of going to a debate tournament. I had a speech piece I had not been practicing because I stood and yelled at a wall so often in my previous fifteen years of life. I was very uncomfortable with the concept no matter how much I understood the purpose. I stressed about it during the three days I practiced. I went and was proud of my performance, with the fact that I had only practice three times before going in mind. The following week consisted of me worrying about how to present without my partner at the Green-Tie Affair FBLA event for Intro to Business. My partner had done the absolute bare minimum on our project. She showed up. It irritated me that she actually knew our project well because it made her seem that she actually did a fair amount of work on it. I’m thankful that she showed up though. We won the best presentation in our

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