Eyes
Vision speaks something incredibly irreplaceable to the human heart and mind everyday. The way one sees things molds the brilliance of his/her life; even if the brilliance isn’t brilliant at all. The statement “it’s what’s on the inside that matters,” contradicts the fact that the human eye is outwardly important. The way a person looks upon a particular aspect of a situation affects his or her outlook and says a lot about who they are. The physicality of the eyes themselves can show our inner emotions. Eyes describe a human being’s personality on an extensive level. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a beautifully tragic story is told by our narrator, Nick Carroway. Something else to consider is the way an individual …show more content…
On page eleven in chapter one Nick is referring to Jordan Baker the golfer. “I looked at Miss Baker, wondering what it was she “got done.” I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender small breasted girl with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity of a wan, charming, discontented face,” expressed Nick. People like to look at things that appeal to their vision. Nick likes the way Jordan looks, but unlike the other characters in this book Nick is curious about Jordan in ways most wouldn’t care to notice. Eventually what she looks like wears off and Nick figures out what he wondered about. He even takes it as far to say that his good honorable friend Gatsby is “worth more than the whole damn bunch!”(and this bunch includes Jordan) Nick eventually sees her for who she is. Most all characters in this book make a choice to not acknowlage who people really are. One of those characters is Jay Gatsby. This Character is in love with a woman named Daisy. They had young love before Jay went off to war. Five years later both of theirs lives have dramatically changed. There is danger hidden in this change; the danger is how they see each other. On page seventy-five Jordan Baker makes the remark that “The officer (Jay) looked at
Vision speaks something incredibly irreplaceable to the human heart and mind everyday. The way one sees things molds the brilliance of his/her life; even if the brilliance isn’t brilliant at all. The statement “it’s what’s on the inside that matters,” contradicts the fact that the human eye is outwardly important. The way a person looks upon a particular aspect of a situation affects his or her outlook and says a lot about who they are. The physicality of the eyes themselves can show our inner emotions. Eyes describe a human being’s personality on an extensive level. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a beautifully tragic story is told by our narrator, Nick Carroway. Something else to consider is the way an individual …show more content…
On page eleven in chapter one Nick is referring to Jordan Baker the golfer. “I looked at Miss Baker, wondering what it was she “got done.” I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender small breasted girl with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity of a wan, charming, discontented face,” expressed Nick. People like to look at things that appeal to their vision. Nick likes the way Jordan looks, but unlike the other characters in this book Nick is curious about Jordan in ways most wouldn’t care to notice. Eventually what she looks like wears off and Nick figures out what he wondered about. He even takes it as far to say that his good honorable friend Gatsby is “worth more than the whole damn bunch!”(and this bunch includes Jordan) Nick eventually sees her for who she is. Most all characters in this book make a choice to not acknowlage who people really are. One of those characters is Jay Gatsby. This Character is in love with a woman named Daisy. They had young love before Jay went off to war. Five years later both of theirs lives have dramatically changed. There is danger hidden in this change; the danger is how they see each other. On page seventy-five Jordan Baker makes the remark that “The officer (Jay) looked at