Pride In The Great Gatsby

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Man’s most detrimental character trait is their pride. Pride describes man’s sizable and irrational sense of personal value and status. Oftentimes man’s abundance of pride will lead to their eventual disappointment in the results of their actions, or their downfall. When man allows their sense of pride to consume them, their results are usually never what they expect and sometimes, ten times worse. Pride leads to the fall of man because it causes one to become presumptuous, greedy, and easily tempted. It is in fact true that that pride is the main cause of the fall of man because it can make one so egoistic that they become presumptuous. Bill Cosby, American stand-up comedian, actor, and musician, was accused of sexual assault by more than …show more content…
In Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, when asking his lover, Daisy, about who were all the men she had ever loved, he wanted her only to say him. So much so, that when Daisy said that she had once loved Tom,“...the words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby” (Source D) Gatsby thought of himself to be so great that he was the only man that Daisy could ever fall in love with. The foolish frustration he had about Daisy’s statement further emphasized how greedy and ungrateful he was, despite the fact that, this married woman was throwing away her values about marriage and loyalty just to say she loved him. Additionally, Tom Buchanan also allowed his pride to make him greedy because when the opportunity came for Tom to get rid of Jay Gatsby permanently, he jumped at it. When he realized that Wilson was upset and wanted to get revenge for his wife’s death, He told Wilson that Gatsby hit Myrtle with his car, even know he did not. His grudge against Gatsby was so substantial that he thought that when Gatsby died, “...he had it coming to him.”( Source E) Tom’s attitude about how and why Gatsby died was very churlish, considering the fact that a man was just shot and killed for something he hadn’t even done. It wasn’t enough for Gatsby to be alone and without Daisy, but Tom wanted him dead, proving that his pride had made him greedy and

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