The dictionary characterizes madness as "mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it”. Emily Dickinson once composed that “Much Maness is divinest sense- / To a discerning Eye”. This statement raises the question of have writers like Mary Shelley, Peter Shaffer, J.D. Salinger and Zora Neale Hurston exhibited a “discerning eye” in creating some of literature’s most unconventional, seemingly irrational characters or have these writers put forth an alternative statement about eccentricity?
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many readers label Gatsby as mentally ill or a lunatic however Jay Gatsby is far from insane. He is a character who knows precisely what he is doing and for what reasons, a sign of complete
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many readers label Gatsby as mentally ill or a lunatic however Jay Gatsby is far from insane. He is a character who knows precisely what he is doing and for what reasons, a sign of complete