The Great Gatsby, was written by F. Scott Fitzergerald. This book is about a man named Jay Gatsby, who is in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. The characters in this book are all superficial. They’re all cheaters and are denying something that’s wrong in their life. The superficial nature of Daisy is that she’s pretending she’s in a happy marriage with Tom, when she’s not.
Jay Gatsby was a man who became trapped by his own dream and received in life what he deserved. Upon meeting Daisy, a beautiful women born rich they had an affair. Gatsby know he couldn’t live up to her expectations of the life style she was accustomed to for he lacked wealth. Gatsby became a man who inspired himself to achieve to be among the American rich society and win the love of Daisy. He was not
When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches. Nick, Gatsby's neighbor, did the favor of reuniting him with Daisy but after all the time they spent together at his mansion, he still wanted more from her. He expected her to tell Tom that she has never loved him, and leave him, but she couldn't. She loved Tom and she'd be lying if she said she didn't. Daisy couldn't give the love that Gatsby expected from her.
In one episode Phil, the husband of the typical family, is writing jokes for a realtors banquet he is hosting. Claire, the wife, hears one of his joke; she laughs at this joke to make her husband feel good about himself but truly doesn’t believe it was funny at all. She knows that if he goes on stage and tells these jokes no one will laugh at them and he will humiliate himself, but doesn’t want to tell him directly because she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings, but his feelings could be hurt even worse if he goes on stage and tells his jokes and no one laughs. In the same episode Cam, the boyfriend of Mitch in the gay couple, starts to exercise because he is overweight. Mitch is overjoyed that he started to exercise, but he wears unflattering tight bike shorts.
The writer then contradicts this with the description ‘signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes’ which suggests to the reader that Gatsby has been over thinking and almost obsessed about this meeting. As well as this the writer suggest to the reader about how much Gatsby cares about appearance ‘I want to get the grass cut’ – it seems Gatsby believes everything must be perfect for Daisy. Yet the reader begins to doubt that all this extravagance is the real Gatsby as the reader discovers his ‘bedroom was the simplest room of all’. The bedroom is somewhere of security and is meant to reflect the person’s personality, in the end Gatsby like his room is the man without all his
I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.” * This quote emphasizes how the upper crust 1920’s society of NY has substituted materialism with spirituality (or I guess you could say they could worship money..). Tom easily forgives Daisy for her infidelity because he doesn’t care about her or his marriage, he simply cares about the illusion of a marriage they put up together. In contrast to this, Gatsby cannot forgive Daisy for loving Tom rather than him because he wants their love to be flawless, the way he sees it in his dream – the American Dream. Chapter 8 #1 - “I jumped out of bed and began to dress-I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too
Whenever Gatsby visits the Buchanans in East Egg, he may as well be wearing a big red “EE” (a new kind of Scarlet Letter) on his lapel. The social divide between Gatsby and Daisy has been the impediment to their relationship since the beginning, and when Gatsby went out to make his fortune as a young man, he did it with the dream of winning Daisy as his motivation. He does end up becoming incredibly wealthy and has the house, clothes and parties to show it. The only problem? The love of his life, Daisy, has married Tom
This wealth and power makes him believe he should get whomever he chooses. He is a compatible match with Daisy because she too is of old wealth and they both are looking for a higher social status, and not true love. Gatsby knowing that most people in his era were all about social status and wealth, made people think that he was of old wealth by throwing extravagant parties. This also made the impression that he
Character comparison The Great Gatsby revolves around Daisy Buchanan's relationship with both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Tom and Gatsby are both very different in the way that they love Daisy. However, they demonstrate to be similar as they both want Daisy to be their own. Tom and Gatsby share many similarities while having a greater amount of differences. Some of the similarities between Tom and Gatsby is being wealthy, wanting Daisy as their own, and having hostile feelings towards each other.
RPrejudice First impressions aren't everything. However, most people judge others by their looks and behaviors. The basic conflict in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" written by Jane Austen was cause by the early judge toward others. This story is about a man named Mr. Darcy who refuses to dance with a girl named Elizabeth in a party, which causes her have prejudice toward Mr. Darcy and assumes that he has excessive pride. However, later on, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth eventually fall in love with each other.