Really unpack the symbolic possibilities. Gatsby didn’t marry Gatsby because he was poor, and Tom was rich, in the simplest of terms. But when you delve deeper the problem for Daisy now is that her marriage with Tom is a failure, and a man she loves, rich beyond his means, has basically knocked on her door asking for her. I think Daisy sobs not only because now Gatsby is a class above her, but she know they can never be together. She comes from one social status the wealthy, sophisticated community of West egg.
Although the line, “no-one had got around to fixing it up yet”, shows that he is still seeing everything as a product that has the potential to be fixed. The fifth stanza has an angry tone as Dawe describes people as being “godless, money-hungry, backstabbing and miserable”. In this stanza, his childhood ends and he enters adulthood, this is shown through the line “goodbye stars and soft cries in the corner”, the once innocent child has now become a greedy business man who is selfish and ruthless. In stanza six, his wife (Alice), is driving him home from a not so good dinner party, as he is angry and getting annoyed with his wife, “now take it easy on those curves, Alice, for God’s sake…” they crash. His last words “watch it” demonstrates the irony of being a product, as if to watch it on
An example of this is how Tom doesn’t even really like Myrtle, but he still cheats on Daisy with her. In this example, Tom is only using Myrtle as an escape from his life with Daisy, which isn’t as perfect as he wanted it to be. Therefore, he feels the need to cheat on Daisy, simply because he can get away with it. Another example of how the rich use the less rich, is when Gatsby uses Nick to get to Daisy. Gatsby wouldn’t have showed so much interest in Nick if he hadn’t known that Daisy was Nick’s cousin.
Gatby's pitfall was considering that if he became a wealthy man, Daisey would really like him. Daisey did not ever really really like him because no issue how much prosperity he had, he was from a different public category. Tom disliked Gatsby both for adoring his spouse and for trying to be his public equivalent. He was able to get his vengeance on Gatsby by effective the infuriated Wilson that Gatsby had intentionally murdered Myrtle. In the end, it was Gatsby's failing to identify his position in their community that led to his
Tom abuses Daisy and he also cheats on her. He is a scary man, but she stays with him because he has a lot of money, and she knows that she will always be protected by it. Daisy is also at fault for having an affair, just like Tom. She does not truly love Tom anymore, and once she meets up with Gatsby again, she is ready to have a life with him now that he has money. She is just as bad as Tom, and only wants someone if they have money.
Spill the blood!” (174,175) Reasoning: No civil person would repeatedly state this phrase. This definitely represents savagery. It shows how bloodthirsty these boys are and then when they recite this while murdering Simon; it makes it even more gruesome. They’re so consumed in all the blood that they don’t even realize they had killed Simon until it is too late. • “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (235) Reasoning: This quote that was stated at the end of the book shows the reader and myself that the world of savagery only leads to murder and sorrow.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, competition between Tom and Gatsby over the heart of Daisy has brought out the worst in both of them leading to their denounced relationship. While at the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy never loved him and only married him because he was poor and she was tired of waiting for him. Tom was upset after Gatsby’s remark and informs everyone that Gatsby is a bootlegger and informs the others about the illegal activities Gatsby was involved in with Wolfsheim (Fitzgerald 130-135). Gatsby said this to Tom because he has grown to dislike him during his quest to win Daisy back. He does not like the way Tom treats Daisy and believes he should be the one that is with her, especially because of Tom’s actions toward Daisy such as talking on the phone with his mistress Myrtle, Wilson’s wife, in front of her (Fitzgerald 15).
Daisy, while she may love Gatsby, loves social standing more and so she remains on East Egg in a loveless relationship. How heartbreaking is the fact that such a man as Gatsby who has crawled and scratched his way from poverty to wealth is still not afforded the love of his life. Even though he fights desperately to fake status, it is the class abyss that denies Gatsby his dream. And as it turns out, it is his willingness to sacrifice for her that costs him his life. Herein is nestled one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s many uses of geographic location to convey the moral decline of this American
Gatsby said, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me,” (130). In 1917 it would have been true that once was rich Daisy would have married him, but when Tom bring to the surface the illegal measures Gatsby went to earned his money, Daisy finds him less attractive, because his income could be lost very quickly or
“You told me to George,” he said miserably.’ This extract suggests that Lennie would have slid down the wall and started crying which shows his sadness and suffering because of his enormous strength and his panicking. When he kills Curley’s wife, it is caused by his obsession to stroke soft things and also because of his strength. Curley’s wife is partly to blame as she leads Lennie on: “Here feel right here.