Mazeda Perven
Ms. Fletcher
English 11B
27 April 2016
Jay Gatsby & the Green light
We all experience loss, heartache, and sorrow, nobody wants to go through these emotional pain, but it is something you can’t avoid, it is just part of our life. The past, it is something you can’t leave behind, but sometime it is up to some to decide if it is important to hold onto or not because when someone holds onto the past they are living in the past nor are they enjoying the present. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby, the title character Jay Gatsby surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and lives in the past. He is the protagonist, who want more than he can have, even when he was small. Gatsby is a newly rich Easterner …show more content…
The narrator says, “.........he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself –that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities.........” (Fitzgerald, 149). The quote is trying to tell us that Gatsby thinks that if he creates a lavish life full of money and parties, then Daisy will return to him because she is used to this kind of life. He thinks that by creating a lavish lifestyle, he can be compatibil of her love. But women during those days were constantly pressured to find a rich man to get married to and settle down at a fairly young age. When Daisy said “I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful, little fool” (Fitzgerald), that quote was talking about what she wants her daughter to be like later on in her life. Daisy’s comment showed a glimpse of how she valued the society’s thinking about how they will think about her if she leave her husband and kid. Gatsby’s one and only dream was to be with Daisy, which made his rich, who could buy anything and hold parties everyday. The desire of Daisy motivated him to earn a lot of
Ms. Fletcher
English 11B
27 April 2016
Jay Gatsby & the Green light
We all experience loss, heartache, and sorrow, nobody wants to go through these emotional pain, but it is something you can’t avoid, it is just part of our life. The past, it is something you can’t leave behind, but sometime it is up to some to decide if it is important to hold onto or not because when someone holds onto the past they are living in the past nor are they enjoying the present. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby, the title character Jay Gatsby surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and lives in the past. He is the protagonist, who want more than he can have, even when he was small. Gatsby is a newly rich Easterner …show more content…
The narrator says, “.........he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself –that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities.........” (Fitzgerald, 149). The quote is trying to tell us that Gatsby thinks that if he creates a lavish life full of money and parties, then Daisy will return to him because she is used to this kind of life. He thinks that by creating a lavish lifestyle, he can be compatibil of her love. But women during those days were constantly pressured to find a rich man to get married to and settle down at a fairly young age. When Daisy said “I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful, little fool” (Fitzgerald), that quote was talking about what she wants her daughter to be like later on in her life. Daisy’s comment showed a glimpse of how she valued the society’s thinking about how they will think about her if she leave her husband and kid. Gatsby’s one and only dream was to be with Daisy, which made his rich, who could buy anything and hold parties everyday. The desire of Daisy motivated him to earn a lot of