The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Essay

The relationship between Myrtle and Tom is based on materialism and sexuality. The way that Myrtle is first introduced into the novel is through the way she looks. “the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. She was in the middle

She has chosen to throw away her whole marriage for a glamorous wealthy life in East Egg. This can be seen when she first talks about the time she ever laid eyes on Tom. She remembers vividly what he was wearing. “It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him…” (Fitzgerald ) This quote in the book represents the phrase, “Met her at a beauty salon, With a baby Louis Vuitton, Under her underarm, She said I can tell you rock, I can tell by your charm..” I chose this stanza of the song for a multitude of reasons. One being that it’s implying that this woman knows nothing about this man, but just by looking at him and what he is wearing she can supposedly tell that he is a good charming man. This is what Myrtle did to Tom. She saw the fancy suit and decided to commit adultery with a man because he was well dressed. Myrtle then and there decided to throw her marriage away for

Myrtle is truly driven by money and materialism because she is unhappy with her marriage. She sees money which in this case is symbolized by Tom as her way out of her unhappy life. Myrtle is so strongly affected by money and materialism that she puts on a different persona when she is around Tom and the more elevated class. “The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur”, This quote states that her personality in the garage was very full of energy and was now replaced with a disdainful pride. This continues throughout the novel to the point where Myrtles materistalic values cause her to stomach Tom’s abuse. “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”. In this quote Myrtle is drunk and yelling Daisy’s name, which Tom (also drunk) takes such offence to that he results to violence.

““It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”””

BrandonKarson BrandonMrs. WheatleyEnglish 3 period 87 September 2017Dear Walter,I remember you driving me places, telling me how you want to be rich. Youwere insulting your Job, your wife's Job, and your Moma job. Iwant to tell you something I told my brother “Love is All Powerful” (Henry 59). Money is not what defines you, It can not make your life better, Love can. If you can just loved your wife and kids, and be happy for what you got. Think about how much you love your family, not money.Dont think about money all the time because money can possessed you. Your Moma said”how come youtalk so much about money” Hansberry 54 You said “Because it’s LIfe Mama” Hansberry 55. Walter money can't buy you happiness

Cannery Row seems to do things that are not done anymore, especially in 2015. The town currently is far different then how Steinbeck describes. The town has strived (finally) from the book . Also Monterey CA is one of the most expensive part of CA.

Passage 1: “He felt good that it was mostly a pleasant memory of a woman whom he hardly knew, and of himself as a person remembered… A slight pang of course… he was able to see that this was mostly a pang for his present aloneness. ‘Listen, if I go down the drain, and I think I will, I don’t want to be tubed or resuscitated or anything. It’s not worth it’” (Lam, 292).

Every time i read this book,i would try my best to understand what attitude Bauby treated to

Like Daisy, Myrtle was passionate about her husband at first, but the marriage has since been at breaking point. While Daisy doesn’t have any real desire to leave Tom, Myrtle is eager to leave, and very dismissive of her husband ‘I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there.’ She makes it clear she thinks she is finally heading for bigger and better things as ‘he wasn’t fit to lick her shoe.’ A glimpse of the world of wealth was enough to turn her head and create a new ‘artificial’ women. In Chapter two, her appeal to wealth is shown further ‘with the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change.’ She is trying to become something that she ultimately is not. Rather than face their problems as a couple, the Wilsons strive for dominance and supremacy within the marriage. While George wants to move out west, he doesn’t have the money, leaving him and Myrtle in the ‘valley of ashes’ and vulnerable to the dangers of the society at the time. The ashes could symbolise their troubled relationship that they cannot see an escape from. Their downfall is their unsteadiness within their marriage which stems from their financial situation. Fitzgerald is showing that those who are not wealthy and are of lower classes are much more vulnerable to tragedy, which in the end is Myrtles death. George Wilson is more humble than his wife. He seems to be satisfied and happy with his life until he discovers that his wife is having an affair and being dishonest. His character is comparable with Gatsby as both are dreamers and are ruined by their unrequited love. Fitzgerald leads us to perceive the illusion that George is submissive allowing people take advantage of him. However, another side of him is revealed after he murders Jay Gatsby. Nonetheless, unlike the other characters he cannot live with or hide

Tobio sat against the headboard and stared down at Shoyo who slept calmly on his pillow, gently breathing. In this state, his defenses were lowered even as he moved responsively to the lift of Tobio’s hand. The hand brushed hair away from fluttering eyelids and proceeded to move back and forth. The hair was fluffy. Tobio combed locks and untangled small knots though there were little to be found. Had there been more, Shoyo would have awakened in an instant. He was tender headed; Tobio had learned from past experiences.

Finally looking at them he stared and slowly placed the paper at the top of his cluttered desk, turning to the two men and sighed the first words, "More of this madness.” Gazing out the window he continued, “For months this town has been unsettled and upset because of these damn requests and these damn ships. Were you present yesterday at the fight at the waterfront?” They shook their head no. “Over the most unbelievable thing,” he shook his head as if scolding school boys. “It seems that one of the sailors, a questionable man he must be, to go on this voyage and perhaps with a bit too much drink in him, told your Captain that,” here the shop keeper played the part of a drunk, “Aye, the 'La Gallega' was a most awkward ship for such a voyage!”

Fitzgerald uses wealth and possession of different people throughout the book to emphasise and justify the character's life choices. Myrtle’s belief of material things signifying to make a successful and wealthy person makes her

Myrtle, a woman from the wasteland referred to as the Valley of Ashes, has the impossible desire to live the life of the upper class and deals with the conflicts her dream spawns through misconceptions of reality. The Valley of Ashes, outside of New York City is home to the poorest, a wasteland created by the riches of both the West and East Egg. Characters such as Myrtle Wilson are continuously held back by the despair and lack of opportunity offered to them by society. Myrtle, a stubborn woman, cannot accept that she will never live a life filled with luxury because her lower social standing would never allow it. To cope with her conflict with society, she breaks societal standards. Accordingly, Myrtle establishes the illusion that she is a rich, proper, woman worthy of the East Egg when she begins an affair with Tom. When Nick, the narrator of the novel, first meets Mrs Wilson, he describes that “her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air” (Fitzgerald 30-31). Myrtle pours all her effort into altering her personality in order to make herself believe that she is deserving of wealth. She exaggerates her laughs and her gestures until she is the centre of attention during that summer night in New York. Though she does succeed in her goal as everyone focuses on her, her livelihood is neither

Wilson gives to Myrtle his complete trust in the same way he provides Myrtle with what she asks for, but she abuses it. She takes her husband for granted while at the same time, she gazes at Tom sitting on a pedestal she has made for him. Tom is the man that can make Myrtle's every fantasy come true, but also the man that will lead to her early death. Myrtle is seen to be a fun and floozy mistress, but not as a real wife. She, as superficial as it may be, is not someone that Tom could take to parties and introduce to his parents. Myrtle controls Wilson, while Tom manipulates her simply for enjoyment. For example, Tom tells Myrtle that the reason they could never wed is because his wife, Daisy, is Catholic and she would never stand for a divorce. In this scene, Catherine, Myrtle's sister, tells Nick Carraway, the narrator, about the reasons why Tom and Myrtle may never come

As Myrtle’s relationship with George Wilson deteriorates and she is disenchanted with his limited lifestyle, she desires more and thus when she meets Tom he offers her this. In some distorted way, Myrtle thinks that Tom will leave his beautiful wife Daisy and marry her, Tom doesn’t truly see the relationship between Myrtle and himself being a true relationship, he just believes she is someone he can call upon unannounced and use her for a sexual relationship. But Myrtle has other plans for the two of them. This is made clear when he breaks Myrtle’s nose we she mentioned his wife’s name: “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy Dai-‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald, 1926)This harsh action implied by Tom, really puts Mrs. Wilson in her place, making her come to her sense of what she can and cannot say. This reaction from Tom signifies that it is not a pure love existing between them. Further, Myrtle’s desire for the material goods Tom can provide shapes her conception of their alleged love, which is evidently greatly distorted as shown through Tom’s treatment of her.