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Chayse Banks
1) “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” This is a very revealing incite into Daisy's character that we see in chapter one. Here she explains what she hopes her daughter will grow up to be, which is a fool. Fitzgerald uses this statement to tell us two things, the atmosphere and ideals of the era, and the ideals of Daisy herself. The 1920's is an era in which fun and extravagance rules day to day life (at least for the upper class discussed in this novel). Women were fun, beautiful, and basically the enjoyable play-things of men. Daisy looks at this ideal of women and glorifies it. She is the product of a time that values this image. Daisy has all the resources at her dispense to achieve this ideal, with the exception of one thing- her intelligence
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Gatsby dreams of attaining Daisy as his own, along with eradicating the past 5 years as if they never happened. Fitzgerald uses careful diction to tell us a lot by this statement. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as trembling in presence of the green light, of his dream. Here you can see an incite into the character of Gatsby, the dedication and devotion he has towards his dream, enough to make him tremble. Nick, in a attempt to see what has Gatsby so moved, looks out across the lake to see the light. Fitzgerald uses the diction “minute and far away”. Since the light represents his dream, this word choice also describes the dream itself. It is obviously impossible for Gatsby to stretch out far enough to reach the far away small light across the bay, as it is indicated the improbability of him achieving his dream. This proves to be true in the end as Gatsby never reaches his green light. This is a parallel to Fitzgerald's life too, who ended up working hard to be good enough and marry the girl of his dreams, but could never make her