Examples Of Perspective On The Great Gatsby

Psychological Perspective

Passage:

“‘Please don’t.’ Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it. She looked at Gatsby. ‘There, Jay,’ she said-- but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette was trembling. Suddenly she threw the cigarette and the burning match on the carpet.

‘Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘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.’

Gatsby’s eyes opened and closed.

‘You loved me too?’ he repeated.

‘Even that’s a lie,’ said Tom savagely. ‘She didn’t know you were alive. Why--there’re things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget.’

The words seemed to bite physically

As Daisy speaks the narrator says,”Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it”(Fitzgerald 132). Daisy's voice shows that she was nervous and felt like she had been singled out because Tom had been asking questions about specific times he thought she loved him. Daisy has not always loved him causing her voice to lose it’s “rancor” or bitterness(132). Gatsby says,”‘You loved me too?’ he repeated. ‘Even that’s a lie,’ said Tom savagely. ‘She didn’t know you were alive. Why--there’re things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget.’ The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby”(132). Gatsby’s consent of Daisy’s love angered Tom causing him to accuse her love to be a lie. Tom’s comment about Daisy and him having many memories that will never go away was intended to antagonize Gatsby because Gatsby regrets not pushing to date Daisy at an earlier time. Daisy says to Tom,”’Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ she admitted in a pitiful voice. ‘It wouldn’t be true’ Of course it wouldn’t,’ agreed Tom. She turned to her husband. As if it mattered to you’ she said’”(133). Although Daisy has not been happy throughout all of her marriage, she still admits that she loved Tom. Tom arrogantly agrees with Daisy that she loved him showing his personality and attitude towards Daisy. Daisy’s comment,”As if it mattered to you” shows that Tom has been careless towards her in previous years. The argument throughout this passage represents emotional states and the characters inner