Revenge is the act of getting back at someone who has previously caused an inconvenience to one. Whether the revenge taken is abstract or concrete, it can cause huge problems for both the one receiving and the one bestowing. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, the idea of revenge is seen in an abstract form due to the main character Jay Gatsby getting back at the world. Along with abstract there is also concrete revenge which is seen in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, because of the wife’s desire to prove her husband wrong and the girl on the wallpaper eventually succeeding in driving the wife crazy. One of William Shakespeare’s greatest works, Hamlet, utilizes the idea of concrete revenge by applying great concrete consequences to its main characters.
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They named him James Gatz, after his father. Gatsby’s desire to get revenge on his parents for not providing him with a better life led him to exile himself from his family and change his name to Jay Gatsby. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, also acknowledges that Jay Gatsby changed his name to get revenge on his parents in an abstract nature when he states, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (Fitzgerald 82). Jay Gatsby also gets revenge on his parents by associating with known criminal Meyer Wolfshiem to try and obtain the lifestyle that his parents failed to provide him with. Gatsby says, “Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler … He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919 … Why isn’t he in jail? They can’t get him, old sport” (64). Gatsby implies that an easy way to get rich in America is to participate in illegal activities such as selling alcohol. This shows that he is willing to do anything to provide himself with the lifestyle he desires. This can be seen as
They named him James Gatz, after his father. Gatsby’s desire to get revenge on his parents for not providing him with a better life led him to exile himself from his family and change his name to Jay Gatsby. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, also acknowledges that Jay Gatsby changed his name to get revenge on his parents in an abstract nature when he states, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (Fitzgerald 82). Jay Gatsby also gets revenge on his parents by associating with known criminal Meyer Wolfshiem to try and obtain the lifestyle that his parents failed to provide him with. Gatsby says, “Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler … He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919 … Why isn’t he in jail? They can’t get him, old sport” (64). Gatsby implies that an easy way to get rich in America is to participate in illegal activities such as selling alcohol. This shows that he is willing to do anything to provide himself with the lifestyle he desires. This can be seen as