Gatsby Milkweed Quotes

Milkweed

The Novel, The Great Gatsby, was written in 1925 by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway, the book’s narrator, takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long island, West Egg. Nick gets to meet his mysterious neighbor in West Egg, a young millionaire named Jay Gatsby (He is the main character in this book). Jay Gatsby always has parties at his mansion in West Egg where all the celebrities and rich people show up. One day Nick gets invited to his neighbor party and there he meets Gatsby for the first time and this book is about their relationship and Gatsby’s love for Nick’s Aunt, Daisy. No one is perfect and everyone has flaws and the purpose of this essay is

. . I just remembered that today’s my birthday” said Nick just after he realised that he spent most of his 30th birthday listening to Gatsby and Tom Buchanan (Daisy’s husband) fight about Daisy. Nick Carraway shows signs of his codependent personality many times in this Novel. Most of his codependent symbols are for example when he is always trying to take care of Gatsby and puts Gatsby ahead of himself, It’s often called “Caretaking”. Another thing that Nick does is that he has a hard time telling people “No” “I was feeling a little sick and I wanted to be alone. But Jordan lingered for a moment more. ‘It’s only half-past nine’, she said. I’d be damned if I’d go in; I’d had enough of all of them for one day” It’s a rare thing to see Nick telling someone “No” and it happened in the end of the book and he said “No” because he had had enough of other people's behavior. Codependents have a hard time saying “No” to anyone. That’s called “People-pleasing”. Sometimes having a hard time telling people “No” is because they have poor boundaries. Nick has very bad boundaries. At one point of the book Tom Buchanan was cheating on Nick’s aunt Daisy in front of him. It was very clear that Nick didn’t like that and knew that it was wrong but he did nothing because of his poor boundaries. Instead of leaving the house or tell Tom that he didn’t like what he was doing he just hid his feelings and partied with them. How did Nick become codependent? We do not get to know much about

Gatsby experienced a hard childhood. Gatsby never accepted his parents and always told himself that he was a son of God. The writer does not tell us much about his parents other than that they were poor farmers from North Dakota. When Gatsby was seventeen years old he changed his name from James Gatz into Jay Gatsby and left his old life behind, including his family. Leaving his family behind could indicate that he wanted something different for himself or that his parents were not good to him, so they could have been the reason for him being codependent. Folks back in early 20th century didn’t know much about codependency, in fact they probably didn’t know anything about it, and this book was written in 1925, i’m impressed about how the writer did a good job of creating these realistic characters. These characters seem so realistic that they might have been real and this book could have been based on events that happened in the real world. What I mean by realistic characters it is that these flaws that they have are so real that they could not have been made in one guys mind in a world where people hadn’t discovered these things such as