Nothing can be that bad if it makes you happy. He talks about waking up from the drunkenness on the green side of the ditch the getting drunk. He means if you realize how ugly the world is ignore it and make yourself happy. No matter what follow your pursuit of happiness. Then he states the clock will tell you it is time to get drunken.
Ricketts, MarieClaire 30/09/2012 P.3 Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Chap. 3 Date & Page Date & Page To me this quote showed the reader that people would use Gatsby. When Gatsby would throw party’s people would show up uninvited and I realized that even though Gatsby was “popular” he was only popular for the lavish parties he would throw, in my opinion. From reading this I can now predict that something is going to happen and Gatsby is going to realize everyone didn’t care about him at all. I felt while reading this quote from chapter 3 that it showed a progression in the relationship between Nick and Gatsby, and since Gatsby was so used to being used it was interesting to see some sort of bond between Gatsby and Nick.
Chapter Ten "Three Women Are Clever" In this chapter Holden goes to the lounge room in his hotel to try and catch a drink. Even though he is underage he still trys to drink alcoholic beverages. While he is at this lounge he mets three women from Seattle, these women seem to be very obsessed with seeing movie stars. They take Holden flirty presence as a joke, and don't really hold a conversation with him. They know he is too young to drink because he is drinking coke.
My father was an alcoholic!” John’s says that he sort of listened but eventually forgot as time passed. He experimented with various drugs as well, some for personal exploration, some to see why others were doing it. Drugs were never John’s thing and by this thirties he was a regular, heavy drinker.
Such escapism reflects the society's desire to be inundated with entertainment and free from political burdens. Choosing leisure over reality contributes to the declining interest in local affairs. If people don't care about voting, the entire foundation of American society will corrode. An apathetic electorate poses a danger to democracy. The media not only distracts society from reality, but also provides temporary pleasure; for example, television instantly fulfills the wish for relaxation.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters to demonstrate the corruption and degradation of the American Dream. He even uses the characters, namely Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, to demonstrate the demise of those who are brave enough to attempt to attain its illusionary goals. There are different types of wealth represented in this novel. The Buchanans are wealthy people. Jay Gatsby is also wealthy but would rather simply be affluent.
This does not sit well with the Savage, as he came from outside the society and was able to experience both pleasure and pain and appreciate one for the other. Confronting the Controller about the prohibition of high art from the society and the encouragement of sensual experiences and drug use, the Savage states that the whole situation seems “quite horrible.” The Controller counters this with “Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery…Happiness is never grand.” This concept of actual happiness alludes to Mill’s idea of the differentiation of pleasure and happiness. While the society
Jake and his friends are at a week long party in Spain. They are getting very little sleep, and drinking a lot of alcohol. It is similar to the life of a college student. The “things” that were happening, such as rockets exploding during the middle of the night and waking everyone up, and men who do not know their names screaming at them to drink because they are foreigners, could only happen at a party. Things that happen at parties are often random, and alcohol fueled.
The poem Morning After by Col Wilson describes how alcohol contributes to the success of his evening with friends and how " he entertained with considerable zest". Even though its good to have a few drinks socially people can get carried away when in good company and the poet shows this in his poem by saying "infact in that company, the port flowed
It is curious to note that Nick recounts the names off notes he took on a timetable dated July 5, 1922, the day after Independence Day, as if to indicate these people have somehow only just arrived and are enjoying the benefits of independence that they didn't even fight for, another example of their pretentiousness. To conclude, the Jazz Age as Fitzgerald coined, shows that the wealthy love large social gatherings, getting intoxicated and gossip, without knowing who they’re gossiping, drinking and surrounded by. Some know others, but the prime example of this is the attendee’s knowledge of Gatsby – or lack of. It is usual for the audience (21st Century) to think of being invited to large parties knowing the host but not most of the guests – the very point