The Importance Of Knowledge In The Great Gatsby

But they were not as family-like as they might had seemed. Tom Buchanan had a mistress from the Valley of Ashes, and rented an apartment for her in the city. Daisy couldn’t do much about it, but she knew clearly about Myrtle, the mistress. One night at dinner with Nick, Daisy’s cousin, “she threw her napkin on the table and excused herself and went into the house”(Fitzgerald 14). There was no mistaking the anger in Daisy as she had to cope with the fact this mistress was interfering with her family. But Daisy didn’t do anything sophisticated to deal with this. When Gatsby was in the car with Daisy on the drive back from New York after a heated fight, he said, “Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward another car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back”(Fitzgerald 143). Everyone believed it was Gatsby who hit Myrtle and killed her. But “in reality, it is Daisy who killed Myrtle, and then fled the scene of the accident”(Auger 127). Her frustration was the destruction of Myrtle Wilson, yet Daisy was not the type to face what she had actually done. Back home with Tom, Daisy had to have talked to Tom about what happen. That would be the most sensible thing to do. Yet, “There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together”(Fitzgerald 145). Daisy was acting casually as if she had

His actions show that he is not loyal nor respectful towards Daisy, instead displaying apathy and disinterest. In addition to acting uncompassionate towards Daisy, he is also not taking into consideration Myrtle’s feelings. In fact, he lies to her in order to stop himself from being forced into a committed relationship. This lie that Tom tells Myrtle is not only extremely false, but also shows he is simply using her. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald 33). Tom lying to Myrtle shows he has no intention of marrying her, instead he only wants to take advantage of her vulnerable state. Myrtle is unhappy and desperate to fulfill her dream of moving up social classes. Instead of acting sympathetically towards her situation, he exploits her weakness. Likewise, Daisy and Gatsby’s affair shows similar exploitation for one’s own personal needs over the emotions of their counterpart. Without Tom’s knowledge, Daisy has an affair with her long lost love, Gatsby. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour… (Fitzgerald 105). During this affair Daisy shows no acknowledgement of Tom’s feelings, the man she married and pledged to be loyal to. At the same time, she is also exploiting Gatsby. Authors say, “...his desire to marry Daisy as an attempt to enter/create

Self Knowledge is a very important asset to have in life. Without self knowledge, one can be viewed as someone completely different or it may lead to poor decision making. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows a great representation of self knowledge or lack of through the main characters and their effects. Jay Gatsby's lack of self knowledge ruins the idealistic vision of his future with Daisy which lead to a life of deception, Nick Carraway's lack of self confidence and identity leads to his character giving off the impression that he has a fake personality, and Daisy Buchanan's wrong decisions mainly lead to her lack of self knowledge. The lack of identity in one's character can lead to future problems.

Nick knows that Gatsby lies because Gatsby wants people to respect him and he does not want to face the reality that he comes from a poor family. Moreover, Nick knows about Daisy and Gatsby's past relationship and how Gatsby cannot face the reality that Daisy is married to Tom. Gatsby presses Daisy to tell him that she never loved Tom. Gatsby wants to deny the truth and wants to bring back the old days he spent with Daisy.

Continuing with the examination of the characters we come to Daisy. In chapter 1, the reader will read of how Tom had been having an adulterous relationship with Myrtle. One may actually have some type of sympathy for Daisy. However there is a time in which Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy were all at Gatsby’s house. While in the house Gatsby was giving a tour of the house with Nick and Daisy,

Throughout the story of the The Great Gatsby, secrecy is a recurring theme.Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan are a married couple who live a luxurious life on the East Egg in New York. While having dinner with Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker, Tom received a call and left the room. Daisy follows him, leaving Nick and Jordan alone. When Nick tries to speak Jordan shushes him and says she wants to hear what's happening between Tom and Daisy. “I thought everyone knew… Tom’s got some woman in New York"(Fitzgerald 15). Tom has a mistress in New York. The reader later finds out that her name Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George Wilson, who doesn't even know about the relationship between the his wife and Tom. As stated by Tom “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister up in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn't even know he is alive”(Fitzgerald 26). The secret is kept between almost everyone as implied by Jordan but kept hidden from George Wilson. This secret creates dilemma in the relationship between Daisy and Tom causing Daisy to feel unwanted

First of all, Nick knew from almost the very beginning about Tom’s affair with George Wilson’s wife, Myrtle. Tom introduced Nick to her personally and the three of them, among another couple, spent the afternoon in a hotel getting drunk and partying. Tom clearly had no shame about cheating on Daisy if he was willing to introduce his mistress to his wife’s second cousin. Despite the fact that Tom having a mistress was “insisted upon wherever he was known,” (pg. 24),

“the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired”(Fitzgerald). From this Nick puts Gatsby as a pursuer and Daisy as the pursued. Nick is essentially stereotyping people with four niche stereotypes that are accurate for very few people. Nick tells gatsby “You’re acting like a little boy” and that Gatsby was being rude. Nick rarely tells people what he thinks of them and their actions. It was a rather condescending statement towards Gatsby, who was already embarrassed.(Fitzgerald 88). One of the few times Nick tells people how he feels about something it’s negative. Throughout the story Nick never tells Daisy about Tom’s affair and Never tells Tom about Daisy’s. Nick also could have told Mr.Wilson from being surprised. If either Tom or Daisy knew they would have divorced ending horribly dishonest relationship. This would have benefited everyone. Mr.Wilson knew that if he did not go west his wife would leave him, but if he knew before he could have either ended the affair or his marriage. If he had told anyone instead of standing by and doing

Thesis Statement: Throughout the narrative, Scott Fitzgerald uses symbols such as the Valley of Ashes, the green light and the eyes of TJ Eckleburg to indicate how greed, materialism and the loss of moral values in society contributed to the unattainability and corruption of the American Dream.

As I watched everything descend in this story I realized how ignorant they truly were. Each wanting to please each other, but really all they wanted was to please themselves. Daisy wanting everyone’s attention, but actually greedy and longed for money and status.

Throughout the novel a common habit of his is to justify the wrongdoings of others in the novel. This is shown in the scene where Tom punches Myrtle. Nick could have scolded and told Tom how wrong it was yet, he said not a word. He flees out of the scene as written, “Taking my hat from the Chandelier, I followed” (Source A). In relation to Tom and Myrtle’s affair Nick also does not speak a word to his cousin Daisy about the affair. Rather he attends a drinking fest with Tom’s secret lover, “Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom” (Source A). To be fair to Tom, Nick also repeats the same act when it comes to Gatsby and Daisy’s affair. In fact, he is the one that brings the two together at the request of Gatsby through Jordan Baker, “She does not know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea” (Source A). Nick does this and also adds, “‘Don’t bring Tom’” (Source A) when speaking to her on the phone. In doing this he condones the affairs and misleads not only Daisy but Tom as well. Another

The Great Gatsby is a novel about a man who tries to win over a woman

Why should high schoolers be forced to read a book that isn’t interesting to them? Often times they either do not apply to real life situations or even teach anything that a teenager would understand. So, the high schooler skims through the book and does not pay attention to any detail. High school classrooms need better books that can teach history in a fun way, and add some interesting things to which students can reflect and think on. A book read in high school, should allow the students to think critically about the text they are reading, should include some references to history, and incorporate themes that are understandable and relatable to a high school student’s life. This makes a book want to be read as well as enjoyable. The

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind appearance.” Said Albert Einstein about the relationship between appearance and reality. Einstein is telling the readers that people are discovering new things that were hidden behind illusions of what had appeared. Humans have to use hat feeling to see threw those appearances to discover the elements that form the reality they live in. Scott Fitzgerald uses the creation of illusive appearance but also writes a discoverable reality for the most of the characters in his novels. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a strong relationship between the illusion of appearance

There is a common theme of education throughout the novel. Both the achievement of it and the lack of it. Throughout this novel many different views of education are encountered, some seek it and some are burdened by it. It plays a very important role in the success of certain individuals as well as the main characters goal to teach Jefferson to be a man.