Theme Of Change In The Great Gatsby

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The theme changing for someone or something can lead to unhappiness. Can be seen in Jake reinvented in more ways than one. With characters in the book that change for someone or something that usually leads two unhappiness. There are there characters that fit the them well. The first is Jake, the new kid at Fitz high school. He throws parties every Friday night at his house. The second character is Didi the girlfriend of Todd Buckley, she is very popular in Fitz, seen as a super model, girlfriend of Todd, and has many friends that are popular and liked. The third is Dipsy he is only seen as a joke and not very popular the only way he is, is when he gets his pants taken by the football players at jakes parties. Jake is the person that fits the theme best. He throws parties by writing …show more content…

It could make him unhappy to do them. And another reason is that he throws the parties to get Didi, what makes him unhappy, is that he had to change his looks to be around Didi. He use to where glass and be more in to school and math before he became Didis math tutor and changes for her. He becomes unhappy as the story goes on. Didi does not break up with Todd to be with him. At the end of the story he takes the blame for Didi hitting Nelson over the head with a glass bottle. Giving him brain damage. When Jake takes the blame for hitting him over the head with a bottle. He gets in trouble with the law. Goes to court and has to make a deal that makes him very unhappy. They will not prosecute if he leaves and goes to live with his mother in Texas until he is twenty one. What makes him unhappy is that he has lost his only friend Rick and Didi still does not like him. And his parents will not trust him for a long time. Making him very unhappy and sad that he has changed for Didi and she still will don’t like to be seen with him. Now that he has to live in Texas with his unhappy mother and with no friends

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