The Great Gatsby: Searching
The Roaring Twenties is known for fast cars, jazz, speakeasies, and provocative dancing. Families are now able to afford the new and glamorous Model T Ford. The economy is soaring! Millionaires are rising up with new money in every direction. Along with this glitz and glamour, this era is also called the lost generation. The lost generation is the generation of cultural and emotional instability and the search for fulfillment that cannot be found in materialistic things. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the glamorous Roaring Twenties. The women characters in the story are absorbed in the lost generation’s beliefs. They are all in the search for the fulfillment they dream. The women in this incredible …show more content…
Her face… [contains] no facet of gleam of beauty but there [is] an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body [are] continually smoldering” (Fitzgerald 29). In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle is searching for money and becoming part of the upper social class. She believes that money and being a part of the glamorous upper class will make her happy. By being Tom’s mistress, Myrtle feels like she will finally find the fulfillment that she is wanting. While entering the city with Tom and Nick she flags down a cab but “she let four cabs go driving away before she selected a new, lavender-colored with grey upholstery…” (Fitzgerald 31). Myrtle wants the newest and most pristine materialistic objects in order to have the feeling of being in the upper class. Being a part of the upper class is not always the grandest thing. Myrtle is a victim of Tom’s aggression (Parkinson “The Women…”73). While in the city at the apartment Tom and Myrtle are in a huge argument. The only part the reader reads about the argument is when Myrtle shouts “Daisy! Daisy! Dais!, I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-“. In one motion Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose with his …show more content…
Daisy “personifies upper class delicacy” because of the family money both she and Tom, her cheating husband, are inheriting (Kersh “…George…”). Daisy’s money is “her protection, her power, and her defense against any accusations against her (Kersh “…Major…”). Daisy’s is a materialistic person. Nick describes that her “voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 127). Her money makes her the person she is. Daisy, like all women in the Roaring Twenties, is in search for fulfillment. Daisy already has all the money she needs and she is in the upper class like all women dream of. So what is she searching for? Daisy is in search for both love and security together. Searching for both of those things do not come easy for Daisy. Since the night they kissed, Jay Gatsby dreams about Daisy. He wants Daisy for the rest of his life. Daisy first meets Gatsby when she is a Louisville debutante. The two are falling in love when Gatsby is having to go fight in the war. Daisy moves on to Tom after Gatsby left but Gatsby never moves on. Gatsby tries to get Daisy to realize she loves him and not Tom. Since Daisy is a materialistic person, when Gatsby is showing her his house she is falling in love with him. For instance, Gatsby shows Daisy his closet and throws his shirts down to her when she begins to cry. Gatsby becomes so confused and concerned about the reason she is crying. Daisy tells Gatsby, “They’re such
The Roaring Twenties is known for fast cars, jazz, speakeasies, and provocative dancing. Families are now able to afford the new and glamorous Model T Ford. The economy is soaring! Millionaires are rising up with new money in every direction. Along with this glitz and glamour, this era is also called the lost generation. The lost generation is the generation of cultural and emotional instability and the search for fulfillment that cannot be found in materialistic things. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the glamorous Roaring Twenties. The women characters in the story are absorbed in the lost generation’s beliefs. They are all in the search for the fulfillment they dream. The women in this incredible …show more content…
Her face… [contains] no facet of gleam of beauty but there [is] an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body [are] continually smoldering” (Fitzgerald 29). In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle is searching for money and becoming part of the upper social class. She believes that money and being a part of the glamorous upper class will make her happy. By being Tom’s mistress, Myrtle feels like she will finally find the fulfillment that she is wanting. While entering the city with Tom and Nick she flags down a cab but “she let four cabs go driving away before she selected a new, lavender-colored with grey upholstery…” (Fitzgerald 31). Myrtle wants the newest and most pristine materialistic objects in order to have the feeling of being in the upper class. Being a part of the upper class is not always the grandest thing. Myrtle is a victim of Tom’s aggression (Parkinson “The Women…”73). While in the city at the apartment Tom and Myrtle are in a huge argument. The only part the reader reads about the argument is when Myrtle shouts “Daisy! Daisy! Dais!, I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-“. In one motion Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose with his …show more content…
Daisy “personifies upper class delicacy” because of the family money both she and Tom, her cheating husband, are inheriting (Kersh “…George…”). Daisy’s money is “her protection, her power, and her defense against any accusations against her (Kersh “…Major…”). Daisy’s is a materialistic person. Nick describes that her “voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald 127). Her money makes her the person she is. Daisy, like all women in the Roaring Twenties, is in search for fulfillment. Daisy already has all the money she needs and she is in the upper class like all women dream of. So what is she searching for? Daisy is in search for both love and security together. Searching for both of those things do not come easy for Daisy. Since the night they kissed, Jay Gatsby dreams about Daisy. He wants Daisy for the rest of his life. Daisy first meets Gatsby when she is a Louisville debutante. The two are falling in love when Gatsby is having to go fight in the war. Daisy moves on to Tom after Gatsby left but Gatsby never moves on. Gatsby tries to get Daisy to realize she loves him and not Tom. Since Daisy is a materialistic person, when Gatsby is showing her his house she is falling in love with him. For instance, Gatsby shows Daisy his closet and throws his shirts down to her when she begins to cry. Gatsby becomes so confused and concerned about the reason she is crying. Daisy tells Gatsby, “They’re such