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Ignorance In The Great Gatsby

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In addition to Wilson, Gatsby, an obsessive criminal, is also a victim of knowledge. Gatsby comes from a poor family; he never had more than what he needed. When Gatsby turns seventeen years old he lives as nothing more than a runaway, and few prospects look promising for his future. This young Gatsby has few dreams for himself, and seldom looks outward in life. All of this changes upon meeting Dan Cody, the yacht-owning, multi-millionaire, drunkard. From this experience, Gatz achieves a small taste of wealth, and that’s all he needs; his ignorance of the finer life has departed. This reformed Gatsby becomes obsessed with wealth and accomplishment. He adopts a new name(formerly Gatz), follows new life morals, and attempts to mingle in with …show more content…

National security is built on the backbone of ignorance. It is foolish to think the government does not hide things from the public; it is the goal of national security. Ignorance plays into national security because technologies must remain secret for public safety. Millions of classified documents exist beyond public domain, and thousands more are created every day. If everyone in America knew about the latest military technology, very soon we would see America’s new technology popping up in China, Russia, and even India. It is crucial that the American public stay ignorant to secret military projects not because the government does not want its people to know, but because it does not want its rivals to know. For example, the SR-71 “Blackbird” was flown in secret for decades with few Americans ever knowing it existed. The American public’s ignorance of this plane allowed America’s technology to stay ahead of the Soviets, and helped America come out on top of overall intelligence levels. The American government would have likely loved to share its new technology; however, the risks outweighed the benefits, and thus the public were kept in the dark. Regardless of being in a way lied to, no one today complains about being left in the dark, as we all know it was for a good cause. In the end, ignorance triumphed; the public feels happy, the government feels happy, and our society lives to be ignorant another

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He is the main character, a rich, self-made man. Despite his successful and busy life, he seems to desire one thing far above all else. He reinvents himself because of his love for Daisy, throwing lavish parties every weekend in hopes that one day she will attend. After winning her over, she becomes his idol. Gatsby doesn’t have a care in the world besides, as can be seen after they hit Myrtle in the yellow car.

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The eponymous character was born the day he met Dan Cody and invented himself a new life. Ultimately, Gatsby created and fabricated his own ideal ‘identity’ to meet his expectations: “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself […] so he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year- old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Two identities therefore arise: Jay Gatsby and James Gatz. Yet one can almost see the threads of James Gatz behind the Gatsby facade. With Daisy, Gatsby loses the carefully constructed identity: he reverts to the young soul seeking for his place in the world, with “a touch of panic” in his voice when he realises that Daisy has “slipped away [and become something] no longer tangible”.

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