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Examples Of Masks In The Great Gatsby

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Kress, Jakob Gatsby Essay 14 April, 2017 Cover Up The world is full of people who put on a different face to hide their true intentions or emotions. These different masks can describe a person and what their intentions are. In Francis Scott’s book the Great Gatsby, set in the 1920 or otherwise know as the forgotten generation. A young wealthy man and his acquaintances all some point use a mask.The masks people put on can not only hurt them, but hurt those around them as shown in The Great Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby a man of mystery greatly displaces on how he wears a mask throughout most of the story. Jordan and Nick are at Gatsby party and they walk up to his bookshelf and starts to admire all of them . As they are looking at the bookshelf, an owled eyed man states, “See! he cried triumphantly. "It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. …show more content…

Nick and Daisy are sitting on a coach in Daisy and Tom’s house talking about how each other have been. Nick notices about Daisy that “Her face is sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth, but there was excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (9). Daisy tries to put on a front to seem happy while she is really sad about the things that have been going on between her and Tom. Daisy speaks to Nick about what is going on with her baby and her marriage that is uncertain.As Daisy says “Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. " Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated” (17). Daisy is trying to put on a show for everyone around her to show that she is sophisticated but she truly isn't until she convinces herself. Even a girl who everyone loves might need to put on a mask to hide the cruel to portray her pure

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