Examples Of Carelessness In The Great Gatsby

Heir Are Careless Heir show their wealth through their personalities, action and the way they speak. Most heir dependence on their wealth and be corrupted by it. Wealth can bring the sense of power, accomplishment and satisfaction. However, wealth can also bring irresponsibility, arrogance and carelessness. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the theme of wealth can breed carelessness using the literary devices of irony, symbolism, and point of view, to create meaning in his classic work. Symbolism is a powerful technique to portrays the theme with objects. The cars as it symbolizes wealth, it also symbolizes carelessness. The car appears several times in the book and causes severals accident. After Nick first time

This sentence from Jordan Baker is surprising “I hate carelessness people.” (p.58). What is irony in this sentence is that Jordan Baker says it, who is also a careless person. Most people usually see others mistake more than yourself and it apply here. She only care to see the mistake of others, the mistake of Tom and Daisy in their marriage, but she doesn’t she herself a careless person because she very careless about herself. Another irony in this book showing careless was when Wolfsheim is talking to Nick about Gatsby, he says: “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.” (p.72). At this chapter you might not realizes that this sentence is irony, but you will realizes slowly after. Gatsby is trying to get Nick trust to see Daisy, whom he in loves with for a long time even she now is married to Tom. Wolfsheim says he would never look at friend’s wife which is true because Tom and Gatsby aren’t friends, but it still he did look for somebody else’s wife and have a desire to break their marriage. Daisy is now have a family of her own and even have a daughter with Tom, but even after Gatsby know that he still blind in the past that he cannot give up Daisy. He is careless for not being considerate about Daisy life, she’ve changed and he should have give up his hope when she betrayed him. He is also very careless for

Scott Fitzgerald portrays the theme wealth could breed carelessness in numerous scenarios, its most prevalent characters are Tom and Daisy Buchanan. They are mostly be corrupted by the wealth and let wealth control their lives. They can do anythings to just save their lives, reputation and wealth. The use of literary elements by F. Scott Fitzgerald such as irony, symbolism, and point of view is what makes the Buchanans who with wealth they obtain, they become careless in every