Texting In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

I ran upstairs as fast as I could as if it was a race to the dinner table. I left my phone on my charger downstairs while I was eating. After I was done eating I ran back downstairs and my phone was gone. I panicked and looked all over and quickly checked anywhere it could be in the room. I thought that it might be upstairs so I ran upstairs and the microwave beeped telling everyone it was done, my friends little brother opened the door and smoke rolled out of the microwave and once the smoke cleared I could see light, I reached my hand in there and found my phone. I was without my phone so I felt that I wasn’t really connected to the world, in a way I felt alone. One reason that texting is better than sending a letter is because instant messaging …show more content…
In the book “The Great Gatsby” this guy named Gatsby had his dream girl and left for the war and then he wanted to marry her, but rich people don’t marry poor people. So Gatsby started bootlegging alcohol and selling it to everyone. During that time Gatsby 's dream girl found a new man and left Gatsby. Once Gatsby got came back to her and he was rich he didn’t want to walk up to her front door and talk to her after 5 years gone. So Gatsby threw weekend long parties that lasted Friday to Monday just hoping she would show up. He built her dream house that was a mirror image of a hotel in Normandy and he bought the house next to her so she would be the only one over there in that area and so he would have a clear view of her house. During the parties he always asked around if anyone had seen her. If he just had facebook or something like that he could have just sent her a message and not do all of these crazy things for her and her not even notice. If they had phones back then they would have never really left each other because they could have always been in constant contact. People can also meet other people around the world, someone can meet another person in China the same day they meet someone in Italy, as long as you can speak the languages. My mom meets new people all the time all over the earth, she does a lot of ancestry so she meets …show more content…
The first reason that texting is better than sending a letter is because instant messaging is faster, more convenient and way easier than a letter in the snail mail, some people might say that teens shouldn’t be on their phones as much and write more letters, also people can reconnect to others around the world, technology has improved our ways of communication with