On a pencil there is normally an eraser at the tip of it, most people wouldn't recognize this until they make a mistake. Sometimes that pencil eraser is gone and again one pays no attention till there's a mistake. This mistaken token of being able to erase something is taken for granted much like many other things someone in the first world wouldn't recognize. Someone living an upper-class life may not have to worry about the rent or what food they will eat today. This assumed safety is shown in the novel The Great Gatsby with most of the men involved in their own life. These men only want women when they need something much like the eraser on the pencil. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that categorizes yet expresses the
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One incredibly controversial topic is Pammy Buchanan, who is only actually seen in the novel once. Pammy is treated as an object, like most women in the novel, but Pammy is a child and needs to be taken care for at every second. “That’s because your mother wanted to show you off.” Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small, white neck. “You dream, you. You absolute little dream.” (PG.???). Pammy represents what Nick may think about when he thinks about upper class “girls”. Whenever Daisy talks about her precious daughter we see she is idealized even by her own mother. “She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (PG.???). The gender of the baby is pronounced and Daisy instantly weeps realizing the life her little girl will have in society. Yet, Daisy still idealizes her own child by how she is well cared for unlike her dream life with Gatsby and all in all Daisy just strives to be innocent and young again like her child. Her child is also never really cared for because she has a nurse only because she is wealthy. Daisy again throwing away her responsibilities, not only as a mother but as a human. Her being wealthy all her life has only raised her to be careless just like she wants her daughter to be. Women in the upper class by distinction associate wealth with carelessness showing how men strive both in a woman. Women in the eyes of Nick and other men are careless, setting up another standard for weak minded women in the
One incredibly controversial topic is Pammy Buchanan, who is only actually seen in the novel once. Pammy is treated as an object, like most women in the novel, but Pammy is a child and needs to be taken care for at every second. “That’s because your mother wanted to show you off.” Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small, white neck. “You dream, you. You absolute little dream.” (PG.???). Pammy represents what Nick may think about when he thinks about upper class “girls”. Whenever Daisy talks about her precious daughter we see she is idealized even by her own mother. “She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (PG.???). The gender of the baby is pronounced and Daisy instantly weeps realizing the life her little girl will have in society. Yet, Daisy still idealizes her own child by how she is well cared for unlike her dream life with Gatsby and all in all Daisy just strives to be innocent and young again like her child. Her child is also never really cared for because she has a nurse only because she is wealthy. Daisy again throwing away her responsibilities, not only as a mother but as a human. Her being wealthy all her life has only raised her to be careless just like she wants her daughter to be. Women in the upper class by distinction associate wealth with carelessness showing how men strive both in a woman. Women in the eyes of Nick and other men are careless, setting up another standard for weak minded women in the