The ground smolders and sends up a disorientating haze where the heat congested with crushed coal coils around the Valley of Ashes like a hot-blooded serpent. Not too far, a grandiose bright-yellow Rolls Royce illuminates flashes of gold as it roars through the gravel course. A figure of a young woman intercepts the automobile, flailing her perspired milky arms. Her eyes divulge her soul, an ocean of hopeless grief that cries for help. Her figure is not enough. It is not enough to provide the power to pull the brakes of the formidable, wobbly Rolls Royce as it thrusts into her. Her torso smashes against the windshield and the hiss of the tires over the rough tarmac is lost under the wailing of Myrtle Wilson. Crimson liquid seeps from her wound
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It is also inevitable that the great ones do fall. Tragedy is an overwhelming, growing wave of unfortunate, unexpected events that overlooks a person’s efforts in life and drags him down to the deepest abyss of the human heart. Jay Gatsby is the epitome of self-calamity the moment he lays eyes on Daisy, the moment he is in contact with the deep, intimate human connection that was once absent in his life. Additionally, love is a road that goes both ways. It is a promise of forever from both parties who embrace one another’s fall, celebrate one another’s happiness, and accept one another’s flaws. Awash with the beauty of Daisy and his burning, youthful unprecedented affection, Gatsby disregards this mutual respect, underestimates the power of love to the extent that he became avaricious over her life. His exaggerated adoration drives him to conceal for Daisy’s culpability of Myrtle’s death because Gatsby creates a cloud of deception that Daisy will ultimately return to him if he gives his all, even his life. This aspect of Gatsby stresses to the world of how potent mentality is and how it can override actions because when a person is goal-oriented, his endeavors and vision cannot be stunted and he is blind to monitor the progress or the limits. Therefore, it is never wrong to experience reality checks, to thoroughly understand circumstances and not to act upon
It is also inevitable that the great ones do fall. Tragedy is an overwhelming, growing wave of unfortunate, unexpected events that overlooks a person’s efforts in life and drags him down to the deepest abyss of the human heart. Jay Gatsby is the epitome of self-calamity the moment he lays eyes on Daisy, the moment he is in contact with the deep, intimate human connection that was once absent in his life. Additionally, love is a road that goes both ways. It is a promise of forever from both parties who embrace one another’s fall, celebrate one another’s happiness, and accept one another’s flaws. Awash with the beauty of Daisy and his burning, youthful unprecedented affection, Gatsby disregards this mutual respect, underestimates the power of love to the extent that he became avaricious over her life. His exaggerated adoration drives him to conceal for Daisy’s culpability of Myrtle’s death because Gatsby creates a cloud of deception that Daisy will ultimately return to him if he gives his all, even his life. This aspect of Gatsby stresses to the world of how potent mentality is and how it can override actions because when a person is goal-oriented, his endeavors and vision cannot be stunted and he is blind to monitor the progress or the limits. Therefore, it is never wrong to experience reality checks, to thoroughly understand circumstances and not to act upon