Examples Of Perseverance In The Great Gatsby

Perseverance is defined as the steady persistence in the course of action, or purpose especially in spite of difficulties, and discouragement. When people get discouraged they must have the heart and the mind set to stay on their course of action. When someone makes the decision to persevere they are choosing to stay focused and not give in to the pressure that threatens to suppress them back from achieving their ambitions. Perseverance involves never giving up. When someone makes the decision to keep fighting no matter what the odds are against them, and not give into the pressure and doubt that clouds their minds; they have chosen to persevere and overcome the complications in their path. This could be found in Unbroken, when “a fierce …show more content…
She never gave up on the idea that her son was alive, she believed him to be missing, but never dead. Louise had perseverance through one of the hardest things she and her family had to face. Also not giving up can be found in The Great Gatsby, when Jay Gatsby refuses gives up on his love for Daisy Buchanan. Even after five long years apart Jay still loved Daisy with all his heart. He knew she was happily married, but all he could think …show more content…
People learn to persevere as an outcome of their suffering. When they come into any kind of heartache whether it is physical or emotional, suffering will teach people how to become stronger and wiser in their decisions and what they choose to pursue from that moment on. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan suffered when she accidently killed Myrtle Wilson. She let Jay take the blame for the murder and never spoke a word to anyone about what she had done. After Daisy killed Myrtle, she refused to speak to Gatsby about what he did for her or what happened that frightful night, and she learned to persevere through the situation with her husband. Instead of the man who loves her enough to take the blame for the murder she committed and that died protecting her reputation and her life. “There was an unmistakable air if natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said [Daisy and Tom] were conspiring together” (Fitzgerald 145). They planned a way to escape from the predicament that they had caused. The decisions they made left them with unspeakable consequences that they didn’t want to have to face so they ran from them. They chose to suffer from the guilt of their crimes instead of confessing to the truth that would set them free. Tom and Daisy would learn to persevere due to the fact that they killed an innocent woman, whether directly or indirectly;