Why is it that people associate ideas such as class, personality, and overall likeability simply with someone’s name? How can a few letters create such a vivid association of memories, emotions, and more? The natural function of the human brain causes people to associate things with a certain name, leading to the name carrying a lot of meaning. F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes this natural function of the brain in order to add meaning to his writing. When someone changes their name in a book, the author can make it seem like they undergo a much more profound change than simply a few letters on a piece of paper. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's decision to change James Gatz’s name to Jay Gatsby emphasizes Gatsby's complete transformation
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Work.........................................................................8.30-4.30 P.M.
Baseball and sports..................................................4.30-5.00 "
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it.........5.00-6.00 "
Study needed inventions.........................................7.00-9.00 (Fitzgerald 173)
The strict schedule represents how Gatsby completely threw himself into a new lifestyle in order to rapidly change his persona. Gatsby believed that if he planned out a daily schedule where he practiced many higher class characteristics such as poise and elocution, he could remodel himself into someone successful and powerful. Gatsby’s determination to be different than his parents and his upbringing also led to him to create resolves, which included
No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable]
No more smoking or chewing…
...Read one improving book or magazine per week
Save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week
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He stops himself from spending time with friends in order to become more productive, but the most important goal that Gatsby set for himself was related to money. In the list of resolves, Gatsby originally decides to save five dollars a week and then changes it to three dollars a week, which represents his taste for money and his desire to spend it lavishly. Gatsby is ashamed of his past because he wants to avoid his association with the stigma of being from the wild Midwest. Gatsby is ashamed of his roots because they associate him with a group that “possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life,” (Fitzgerald 176). Gatsby desires to not be associated with this group because he does not want to carry the stigma of being an uncontrollable individual and unadaptable to the extremely different lifestyle present in the Eastern society of Long Island. Gatsby’s shame leads to his determination to becoming a new person, as well as him continuously avoiding to discuss his past and even lying about
...............................................7.15-8.15 "
Work.........................................................................8.30-4.30 P.M.
Baseball and sports..................................................4.30-5.00 "
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it.........5.00-6.00 "
Study needed inventions.........................................7.00-9.00 (Fitzgerald 173)
The strict schedule represents how Gatsby completely threw himself into a new lifestyle in order to rapidly change his persona. Gatsby believed that if he planned out a daily schedule where he practiced many higher class characteristics such as poise and elocution, he could remodel himself into someone successful and powerful. Gatsby’s determination to be different than his parents and his upbringing also led to him to create resolves, which included
No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable]
No more smoking or chewing…
...Read one improving book or magazine per week
Save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week
(Fitzgerald …show more content…
He stops himself from spending time with friends in order to become more productive, but the most important goal that Gatsby set for himself was related to money. In the list of resolves, Gatsby originally decides to save five dollars a week and then changes it to three dollars a week, which represents his taste for money and his desire to spend it lavishly. Gatsby is ashamed of his past because he wants to avoid his association with the stigma of being from the wild Midwest. Gatsby is ashamed of his roots because they associate him with a group that “possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life,” (Fitzgerald 176). Gatsby desires to not be associated with this group because he does not want to carry the stigma of being an uncontrollable individual and unadaptable to the extremely different lifestyle present in the Eastern society of Long Island. Gatsby’s shame leads to his determination to becoming a new person, as well as him continuously avoiding to discuss his past and even lying about