Even though these characters like Jay Gatsby, Victor Frankenstein, Holden Caulfield, Daisy Buchannan and Janie Peace carry themselves in an eccentric manner, These writers of these novels (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley J.D. Salinger and Zora Neale Hurston) have gone against the stereotype of what classifies someone as being mad because the persons in the novel were aware of their actions, these characters have experienced some kind of trauma that forced them to react the way they do and all of these individuals from the novel seem to be misunderstood.
These writers have made it very clear that their characters have been aware of their actions the entire duration of the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing what he did. This was an extremely clear indication that he could be classified as a person with sanity. One can infer that the only time
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Gatsby was a character was desperately in love with Daisy and Gatsby is deceived by a passionate and naïve vision of Daisy and his past with her. “In her heart, she never loved anyone except me”(Fitzgerald). Gatsby is fixated with recouping a relationship that was a misconception. In Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley- Victor Frankenstein became completely aware of his actions due to how engrossed in his work and for a vast amount of time it was all he seemed to care about. He was obsessed with the idea of creating life. His