Mendoza1 When talking about society and how individuals act within it, a big factor will always come up. Everyone wants to be high in the power caste and will do anything to attain that power. Because of the way, that the idolized society views a person, this can force the individual to wear a mask. When you are in high power, you tend to have things come easier than others. When talking about society and how individuals act within it, a big factor will always come up. Which would explain why people always try to put up a façade, better known as, a “mask” in society. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby to highlight the need to become high in power, as well as some other supporting characters. But when
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People like Jay Gatsby who is famous and known by that name but truthfully that’s not who he really is. Jay is actually a poor man named James Gats who came from a dead mans land, where most people who lived there will sadly most likely never see the day that they make it out of there. This is because society has a habit of looking down upon those who seem like they have no ambition or even class to be associated with people who are high in the power caste. So in order to achieve the requirements that the idolizes society are setting Jay killed off the persona known as James, and became this mysterious classy man who started to make big money out of no where and hosted parties that brought people from all over new york to his mansion almost every week, all in the effort to get the respect of others but more importantly to get the attention of his true love Daisy, who just like jay had a deep conceived love for their relationship, "pulled out the string of pearls. Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy 's change ' her mind. Say: 'Daisy 's change ' her mind!" (4.129). Jay Gatsby changed his whole appearance to fit in and get daisy back; he started to see success, however even though he changed these things about himself he still found that people refused to let his past stay be hind him, "About Gatsby! No, I haven 't. I said I …show more content…
So it is understandable why haizlip’s family chose to do that and in a sense neglect/disown they’re past and try to start a new. Even though it is true that we can wear a mask of our own free will as seen in the text “Passing”, and that we can be pressured by society to wear a mask in order to fit in with other as seen from the text “The Great Gatsby.” It is highly possible that we as a society can be tricked into the idea of wearing a mask. This statement is proven through the “biography of Monique Wittig” and her examination on the fact that the things that we think are is actually an assumption of what we told is right not what truly is
People like Jay Gatsby who is famous and known by that name but truthfully that’s not who he really is. Jay is actually a poor man named James Gats who came from a dead mans land, where most people who lived there will sadly most likely never see the day that they make it out of there. This is because society has a habit of looking down upon those who seem like they have no ambition or even class to be associated with people who are high in the power caste. So in order to achieve the requirements that the idolizes society are setting Jay killed off the persona known as James, and became this mysterious classy man who started to make big money out of no where and hosted parties that brought people from all over new york to his mansion almost every week, all in the effort to get the respect of others but more importantly to get the attention of his true love Daisy, who just like jay had a deep conceived love for their relationship, "pulled out the string of pearls. Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy 's change ' her mind. Say: 'Daisy 's change ' her mind!" (4.129). Jay Gatsby changed his whole appearance to fit in and get daisy back; he started to see success, however even though he changed these things about himself he still found that people refused to let his past stay be hind him, "About Gatsby! No, I haven 't. I said I …show more content…
So it is understandable why haizlip’s family chose to do that and in a sense neglect/disown they’re past and try to start a new. Even though it is true that we can wear a mask of our own free will as seen in the text “Passing”, and that we can be pressured by society to wear a mask in order to fit in with other as seen from the text “The Great Gatsby.” It is highly possible that we as a society can be tricked into the idea of wearing a mask. This statement is proven through the “biography of Monique Wittig” and her examination on the fact that the things that we think are is actually an assumption of what we told is right not what truly is