The Great Gatsby Prudence Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to discuss society, relationships, and money. The book takes place during the roaring 20’s, a time of parties and big business, and follows the lives of Nick, Tom, Daisy, and Jay Gatsby. Many characters demonstrate their true intentions through the way they talk and react with others, but Daisy Buchanon is especially characterized through her own actions. F. Scott Fitzgerald wants the audience to view Daisy as a greedy and self absorbed pretty girl, and he proves it with her actions, rather than description.

In the summer of 1922, I was planning to have a party in my mansion. I had decided to invite everyone from West Egg and East Egg to the party. Everyone was welcomed and many guests that I had never met showed up. When guests came to the party, they wondered over my Rolls-Royce, swimming pool, a live orchestra, and buffet tents in the garden. I didn’t care for their behavior and didn’t mind if they spent their time drinking. I just stood upstairs watching them and looking for my love, Daisy. I always searched to see if she was in attendance at the parties. I couldn’t resist the obsession of finding Daisy. I was no longer that poor young man. Now I could claim I came from a wealthy family and I

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1).

In the age of the 'Roaring '20s', corrupt minds plagued the society of New York's elite and wealthy. In Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan serves as a prime example of living the bourgeois lifestyle that ignored moral values. By blindly treading back and forth over the boundary separating morally wrong and innocently justified, Daisy's actions can be depicted as a person of an indecisive mind. By loving two men, and committing a murder, she exhibits the prime traits of a criminal- but by attempting to escape her blatantly sinister husband, Daisy innocently reaches for the lustful romance she yearns. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Daisy Buchanan as morally ambiguous through her speech, actions, and relationships with others.

When someone comes off too eager for something they desire, sometimes the satisfaction won’t meet the expectations they primarily had. The thrill to chase that dream has vanished and has now turned into a bland, dull thought. Gatsby’s memory of Daisy had changed and then builds her up to more than she actually is. He then proceeds to market Daisy as something completely different. The tendency for Gatsby trying to lie to himself about his memory of Daisy has faded and is now trying hopelessly to revive his past feelings about Daisy. “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity”(Fitzgerald 92). The cumbersome attitude of Gatsby towards

The owl-eyed man is the first one to be mentioned. During chapter III the readers meet him for the first time. He has drank too much and goes on about Mr. Gatsby’s library on how impressive it is with having real books. As the reader breaks down his name we are left with owl. Owls are thought to be intelligent creatures and to have great sight. When Gatsby dies Nick has a hard time finding people to come to the funeral. All the people that showed up where Mr. Gatz, Mr. Gatsby’s father, Nick, a few servants, and the owl-eyed man. He said, “‘Go on!’ He started. ‘Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds.’ He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in. ‘The poor son-of-bitch,’ he said”(175). In the quote the owl-eyed man

​In The Great Gatsby the character Daisy Buchanan was one of the characters that due to her decisions in the past her present is not what she wanted. This affects the story from the beginning to the end. Daisy was from Louisville, Kentucky before the war, many military officers chased her. In those many officers Gatsby included he lies to her about his past and tells her that he is wealthy, soon after she falls in love with Gatsby and promises that she will wait for him. But during the war she marries a man named Tom Buchanan, who promised her a wealthy lifestyle. Later, Nick her cousin helps her and Gatsby reunite after so many years, they have at first an awkward meeting, but after Nick leaves them alone and comes back they seem to be happy.

Gatsby: Oh Jesus,you just hit that girl we should go back and help pick up her body and bury her

The connection between these two quotes is that they both involve Isabella acting selfish and deceitful toward Catherine, and they show how Catherine responds to the realities surrounding her. When Catherine makes plans with Miss Tilney Isabella tries to selfishly convince Catherine to cancel her plans due to her controlling and jealous nature, which to Catherine, “[appears] to her ungenerous and selfish, regardless of everything but her own gratification (67).” This quote is important because this is the first time Catherine really acknowledges the downfalls and incredibly selfish nature of her friend, and it also shows that Catherine is starting to see her world for what it is instead of skewing reality to fit the traits of one of the novels she has read. Although, Catherine starts to develop this skill while in Bath, she still has a hard time reading people and has the tendency to assume incorrectly about her peers.

I remember it as if it were yesterday. There I was in trouble for insubordination. I thought to myself , ¨ Damn, already causing trouble in high school. Well this guy has never dealt with a student like me¨. I remember the first words that you said were ¨ I don't want to hear anything but the truth, did you or did you not say the f word in class?¨. I said ¨yes¨ ands you said, ¨Alright honest man I like that¨ and you just sent me back up to class. I've grown up a lot since that day Mr.Curley, all thanks to you I have learned a lot.

Through a variety of literary devices, imagery, symbolism, detail, and repetition, Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as the figure of Christ to conveys the idea that in a society where the superior looks down upon “new money” folks, the people who are categorize as “new money” will most likely to fail while trying to achieve their goal no matter what. For example, the imagery of words “shouldered the mattress”. This is a really unique image because one would only shoulder things when it is too heavy to carry by bare hands, however a mattress is really light while Gatsby shoulders it. This image emphasizes him as Jesus because Gatsby is carrying the mattress as if Jesus carries the heavy cross to his death. If Gatsby was an “old money”, he would most

Gatsby essay We as humans often crave love but we are also victims to Lust, there are times when we hurt the ones closest to us when we fall prey to cheating in the end we lose those who were like gold to something that could never compete. Cheating in the Great Gatsby is expressed through F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s Characters Tom and myrtle whose relationship puts a strain on Tom’s marriage but also through Gatsby and daisy’s forbidden adventures, that leads to great consequences. In the beginning of the Novel Nick visits his distant cousin Daisy and her husband Tom who live just across the bay from him while he is there Fitzgerald begins to add in factors that lead us into the start of the conflicts. While at dinner the phone rings and the tension in the room has come to light, “Tom’s got some woman in New york (fitzgerald 15).”

I wish I was a beautiful little fool, oblivious to the motives of both my lover and my husband. As I drive away with the imposter, away from the place where I would have reinserted my power and dominance and received the satisfaction of material wealth, I was blindsided and made to look like the fool I dreamed to be. Your wealth misleads the con hidden underneath your magnificent suits and the extravagant parties thrown under your leadership. Looking at you next to me, heartbroken as if I were the one that betrayed you seems absurd to me in the least. My biggest regret was not leaving Tom but, crying into your crime ridden shirts, wasting tears that could be shed for a more powerful man. Are you really the great Gatsby that others perceive

Daisy is trapped in a patriarchal society that is almost completely dominated by men. Women have always been held to a lower standard. Most women at that time couldn’t even vote for the majority of Daisy’s lifetime. I woke up out of the ether after delivering a baby with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. 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.” Daisy is trapped in a patriarchal society that is almost completely dominated by men. Women have

How came people did not respect Fitzgerald’s writing in the twentieth century, but why people are respecting and valuing Fitzgerald work in the twenty-first century? Fitzgerald had a hard time to profiting from his writing, but he was not successful after his first novel. There are three major point of this essay are: the background history of Fitzgerald life, the comparisons between Fitzgerald and the Gatsby from his number one book in America The Great Gatsby, and the Fitzgerald got influences of behind the writing and being a writer. From childhood to adulthood, Fitzgerald faced many good and bad experiences that inspired him to achieve his own American dream in a short amount of time.