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Dialectical Journal For The Great Gatsby

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1. The American Dream is what everyone was striving for in the novel was about gaining wealth and material possessions to find happiness.
2. The life of the roaring twenties was full of parties, laughter, and entertainment. In this time period, Tom and Daisy were more worried about their image and possessions than having a healthy marriage.
3. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel of the restrained love between a man and a woman , Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby spends most of the novel finding any way possible to reconnect with Daisy and find the love the two shared 5 years previous. Although Tom and Daisy Buchanan are married now and are in an unstable relationship he still tries everything …show more content…

Tom nodded sagely. “ And what’s more, I love Daisy too, Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”(Fitzgerald 131).
4. In this quote Tom means that Daisy should be okay with him having his affairs on her because he still loves her. But, marriage and love don’t work that way, for him to have happiness he has to cheat on his wife to find the attention he needs.
5 “I never loved him,” she said perceptible reluctance. “ Not at Kapiolani?” “No.”(Fitzgerald 132).
6. In fact, Daisy doesn’t like that Tom cheats on her in the beginning, it really wore on her, but she is more worried about her reputation than Tom’s affairs on her. Daisy as well had an affair with Gatsby, it shows both of their carelessness. As well as in this time period divorce was controversial, it wasn’t really an option for men.
7. In the novel, it seems normal to have affairs on one’s spouse some say it could have something to do with the time period.

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This change in culture is a prime example of why the relationships in this time period were so different and lenient.
3. A perfect example of what women acted like in this time is from Daisy Buchanan she said “And I hope she’ll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”- (Fitzgerald 17).
4. Daisy wants her daughter to be a little fool. This refers to the social values at this time. She describes this from her own life and tries to imply that a girl can find happiness if she beautiful and falls for money. She also implies that women have a hard role to play in life and it is better to take the easy way out. Daisy wants her daughter to be ignorant because if her daughter is unintelligent she won’t know how the real world works and that there are other men to marry than just men like Tom.
5 “She never loved you, do you hear?” he cried “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone except me!”- (Fitzgerald 151).
6. Daisy only married Tom because he was easy and available, not because she was actually in love with him. She wanted her life shaped now and the closest thing to a perfect life is with Tom. Women in this time either got married or lived with their

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