It Just Wasn’t Meant to Be
Many times in life, people are subjected to be overcome with greed. It is too often that we witness people spending money they don’t have in pursuit of impressing people they often don’t even like. Ultimately it seems the vicious circle ends in regret and self-loathing. This seems to be a pressing theme presented in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby and in Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited. Charlie and Jay Gatsby share many similarities throughout their stories. However most obviously they were both wealthy and well-known yet they are stuck on mistakes they had both made in their youths. The time periods they were in also had impact on their stories, setting such glamorous scenes for such dramatic consequences. “Stocks …show more content…
The author of both pieces, Scott Fitzgerald himself said “It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory”
The movie The Great Gatsby is narrated from a third party’s view. By a man named Nick whom is related to the unattainable love interest of the whole story; Daisy. Daisy is portrayed to be the most beautiful and kind and she as well as Jay Gatsby have a love that’s never dwindled. However Gatsby was drafted by the army and they lost touch. All these years later now. Daisy is now married to another man whom cheaters on her constantly, with a mechanics wife named Myrtle. When the physical character of Gatsby is introduced, he is very mysterious, no one knows what he looks like or even where he’s come from. “I’ve never seen Mr. Gatsby, no one ever has.” (DiCaprio 2013) The plot comes together when we discover that he threw parties with amazing grandeur, in hopes that the celebration would grab the attention of his beloved Daisy and the allure would draw her back to him. “It’s so sad, because it 's so hard to make her understand. It 's so hard …show more content…
“He remembered a hundred franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred franc notes tossed to the doorman for calling a cab” (Baym 2013 p.2167) “It had been given in the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering that he might not remember the things most worth remembering.” (Baym 2013 p.2168) In 1929 an unforeseen bought of bad luck rocked Charlie’s world., He lost his whole fortune when the stock market crashed along with his wife Helen, whose ultimate demised was ruled as “heart failure” (Baym 2013 p.2173) When Helen passed Charlie was in no condition to provide a life for his daughter Honoria, so full custody was awarded to Helens sister Marion. In this particular story it appears that some time has now passed now and Charlie is back, not wanting to miss any more time in his daughter’s life. “To think of Sundays spent with her and of saying Good Morning to her and of knowing she was there in the house at night, drawing her breaths i the darkness.” (Baym 2013 p.2175) After relentless arguing Marion’s stance began to waiver. She consented to let Honoria live with Charlie yet the legal custody would remain with her. “One thing—the legal guardianship, Marion wanted to retain that a while longer. She was upset by the whole matter and it would oil things if she felt the situation was still in her control for another year. ” (Baym 2013 p.2174) Charlie
Many times in life, people are subjected to be overcome with greed. It is too often that we witness people spending money they don’t have in pursuit of impressing people they often don’t even like. Ultimately it seems the vicious circle ends in regret and self-loathing. This seems to be a pressing theme presented in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby and in Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited. Charlie and Jay Gatsby share many similarities throughout their stories. However most obviously they were both wealthy and well-known yet they are stuck on mistakes they had both made in their youths. The time periods they were in also had impact on their stories, setting such glamorous scenes for such dramatic consequences. “Stocks …show more content…
The author of both pieces, Scott Fitzgerald himself said “It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory”
The movie The Great Gatsby is narrated from a third party’s view. By a man named Nick whom is related to the unattainable love interest of the whole story; Daisy. Daisy is portrayed to be the most beautiful and kind and she as well as Jay Gatsby have a love that’s never dwindled. However Gatsby was drafted by the army and they lost touch. All these years later now. Daisy is now married to another man whom cheaters on her constantly, with a mechanics wife named Myrtle. When the physical character of Gatsby is introduced, he is very mysterious, no one knows what he looks like or even where he’s come from. “I’ve never seen Mr. Gatsby, no one ever has.” (DiCaprio 2013) The plot comes together when we discover that he threw parties with amazing grandeur, in hopes that the celebration would grab the attention of his beloved Daisy and the allure would draw her back to him. “It’s so sad, because it 's so hard to make her understand. It 's so hard …show more content…
“He remembered a hundred franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred franc notes tossed to the doorman for calling a cab” (Baym 2013 p.2167) “It had been given in the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering that he might not remember the things most worth remembering.” (Baym 2013 p.2168) In 1929 an unforeseen bought of bad luck rocked Charlie’s world., He lost his whole fortune when the stock market crashed along with his wife Helen, whose ultimate demised was ruled as “heart failure” (Baym 2013 p.2173) When Helen passed Charlie was in no condition to provide a life for his daughter Honoria, so full custody was awarded to Helens sister Marion. In this particular story it appears that some time has now passed now and Charlie is back, not wanting to miss any more time in his daughter’s life. “To think of Sundays spent with her and of saying Good Morning to her and of knowing she was there in the house at night, drawing her breaths i the darkness.” (Baym 2013 p.2175) After relentless arguing Marion’s stance began to waiver. She consented to let Honoria live with Charlie yet the legal custody would remain with her. “One thing—the legal guardianship, Marion wanted to retain that a while longer. She was upset by the whole matter and it would oil things if she felt the situation was still in her control for another year. ” (Baym 2013 p.2174) Charlie