The theme of seeing and not seeing permeates the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald created a multitude of flood characters each blind to their own weaknesses. From Myrtle’s blindness the fact that she will never be able to be wealthy. Gatsby's vision is obstructed by his love for Daisy. Daisy's blind to a happy life and from her husband's affairs and terrible behaviors. Almost all the characters are blind in one way or another. Fitzgerald uses the concept of blindness to show how the power of wealth will ultimately lead to destruction and for a few death.
Gatsby's blind to his weakness of his alternate reality. his alternate reality with Daisy. He loves Daisy so much that he would do anything for her. He turns a blind eye to all
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She turns away from her husband’s affairs. Tom is a racist controlling husband, “This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It is up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things”(Fitzgerald 13).Tom wants everyone around him to think as he does. He spreads his books about racism and dominant races at dinners. He has so many bad behaviors and Daisy looks past them. She knows Tom is having affairs but she never confronts him about it. She is supposed to be a trophy wife and she is until Gatsby came back into her life. She is also blinded by love, she cannot decide between the two men in her life. Tom has the more respectable “old money,” during the time and Gatsby has her love and best interest. "I did love him once," she says, "but I loved you too" (Fitzgerald 132). She can’t decide but in the end she stays with Tom.
In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald created a multitude of flood characters each blind to their own weaknesses. Myrtle’s blindness came from her gullibleness and quest for money . Gatsby's is blinded by his love for Daisy. Daisy's blind to a happy life and from her husband's affairs and terrible behaviors. Fitzgerald used the concept of blindness to show how the power of wealth will ultimately lead to destruction and for Gatsby and Myrtle,