Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Great Gatsby

          The non fiction book "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Nick Carraway whose the main protagonist caught in between the life of Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan both fighting for the love of Daisy. Jay Gatsby the neighbor of Nick is a fabulous wealthy man in love with Daisy Buchanan living in West Egg Long Island. But Daisy turns out to be married to nicks long companion Tom Buchanan a sophisticated wealthy man with an appearance of aggressiveness. Gatsby is a lonely man with no one in his life other than his wealth to comfort him and the friendship of Nick. The theme of the book is to enjoy life and companion ship around you, because money can't buy you happiness only popularity.
           An example of this would be at his extravagant, glorified parties. For example, when Nick was lurking around Gatsby's party in search of him he came across many people asking them the same question "Pardon me my good sir, but by any chance have you seen Jay Gatsby anywhere around?" And ever one had always responded "no" and and started talking about conspiracies about what society thought he had to be. This shows how people only know him because of his parties, but no one really knows him personally  to sit down and chat with him.
             Another example would be when Daisy went to his mansion to visit him. Gatsby felt so alive and joyous that his love came over, Daisy because it felt like old times to him when they had an affair at a young age. He endorsed the moments he spent with Daisy and didn't spend anytime away from her.
             Further more, after Gatsby got shot in his pool as an act of murder after being accused as the crime suspect of Myrtle's assassination, a woman who Tom was having an affair with while being married to Daisy. He had a funeral where no one attended not even his butlers, but only Nick. His only friend. This shows how lonely Gatsby is, even his considered "friends" didn't have the time to visit his memorial.
               More over, Nick was caught in this tidal wave of love over fighting for Daisy's hand. But even though Gatsby had all the money and fame he could ever ask for, that never satisfied him completely. He always had this rotten part to him where it would never had gotten filled if it wouldn't have been for Nick.

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