From the beginning the novel “The Great Gatsby” the characters show themselves to be stuck up and conceited, and only concerned with themselves. For example, when Nick goes to Daisy’s house and the phone rings and Jordan says that it’s Tom’s mistress. Another example would be when Myrtle explained that she thought her husband was a gentleman until she married him because he had to borrow a suit for their wedding. These three things are the beginning and all show different signs of the characters being stuck up towards one another in The Great Gatsby. With the characters being stuck up it made them feel as though they could say whatever they wanted to whoever they wanted to which made them seem careless. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the Great Gatsby, and e.e. Cummings,
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Repetition reinforces the theme by repeating anyone lived in a pretty how town, and no one cares, nobody loved. The ideas conveyed is that no one loved anyone. “Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Line 4). “They sowed their isn’t they reaped the same” (Line 2) In The Great Gatsby when Daisy and Gatsby were driving and hit Myrtle they kept going didn’t go back to check on her to see if she was ok. Both of these examples show a sign of carelessness in both the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and in the novel “The Great Gatsby”. In the poem they didn’t care for anyone at all which shows carelessness towards “anyone”, and in the novel they didn’t care whether Myrtle was hurt or not to even go back and check on her after they hit her.Fitzgerald’s and Cumming’s purpose both is to educate the readers and teach us that life isn’t fair and there’s going to be lots of people who are careless and don’t care for you at all. The reader’s can use what we have learned from the novel “The Great Gatsby”, and the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” to come to the conclusion that you get out of life what you make it, you can’t depend on someone else to care and love for
Repetition reinforces the theme by repeating anyone lived in a pretty how town, and no one cares, nobody loved. The ideas conveyed is that no one loved anyone. “Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (Line 4). “They sowed their isn’t they reaped the same” (Line 2) In The Great Gatsby when Daisy and Gatsby were driving and hit Myrtle they kept going didn’t go back to check on her to see if she was ok. Both of these examples show a sign of carelessness in both the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and in the novel “The Great Gatsby”. In the poem they didn’t care for anyone at all which shows carelessness towards “anyone”, and in the novel they didn’t care whether Myrtle was hurt or not to even go back and check on her after they hit her.Fitzgerald’s and Cumming’s purpose both is to educate the readers and teach us that life isn’t fair and there’s going to be lots of people who are careless and don’t care for you at all. The reader’s can use what we have learned from the novel “The Great Gatsby”, and the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” to come to the conclusion that you get out of life what you make it, you can’t depend on someone else to care and love for