Examples Of Ignorance In The Great Gatsby

“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” -Ernest Dimnet, French clergyman. No one is more toxic than a person who does not want to hear the truth, because he does not want their illusions destroyed. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, brings the reader back in time to the 1920’s, where jazz had taken control of the New york city streets and dopamine seemed to infect the air and anyone who breathed it in. Outrages parties every night within various clubs and homes while illegal alcohol is being sold at every corner. Empty champagne bottles littering the streets as people wandered in and out of

"I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once--but I loved you too."’ (Fitzgerald 264) The Great Gatsby. New York;Scribner, 2004. Daisys wreckless manor when her perfect facade is shattered, exposing their relationship to her husband proves that she is so selfish for love that she abandoned everything she had to be with the man she thought was perfect several years ago; without even knowing the full truth about him. She forgets about her daughter and her life back at home when she is with Jay, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and a wife. Another example is, her incapacity to understand others feelings or emotions. “Gatsby’s image as a character that is entirely devoted to his beloved, a man who loses everything to protect Daisy from the repercussions of Myrtle’s accidental death.” -Auger, Christine anne. “Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of

“Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective.” Daisy is only ever looking out for herself, even when telling the truth could save lives. Her selfishness corresponds with her lack of responsibility in sense that she lets the man she believes she has fallen in love with take the fall for her actions. Not caring that the repercussions was death. ‘“Here, deares'." She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'" (Fitzgerald 129) The Great Gatsby. New York;Scribner, 2004. It is Daisys wedding night and she is willing to call it off for her selfish need to be with the man she loved years ago, only because he sent her a letter. Daisy doesnt even know this man's true intentions, and puts all her faith into a single, ominous letter over the man that had proposed to and showed her his love. Daisy was selfish enough to throw her fiance away on their wedding night without a second thought. Even more so, she was willing to throw her entire life away to meet up with a man she had met only once on some flake of hope that he would be everything she had been fantasising about since their