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Image In The Great Gatsby Essay

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(add something before) A lot of people in The Great Gatsby put their image first before everything and negatively affect those around them, such as Jay Gatsby. This is especially prominent at Gatsby’s extravagant parties and his depressing funeral. When Gatsby threw his parties, they weren’t just a one night affair. Gatsby would spend days and nights on preparations alone “on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.” Gatsby felt the need to go over the top with his parties, in case Daisy Buchanan happened to show. Gatsby has had a growing obsession of her ever since she left him five years ago, she was afraid his lack of wealth would ruin her image with the upper class. (TRANSITIONAL SENTENCE) Gatsby wanted his party to be seen across the bay “Seven hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas …show more content…

People only came to improve their own social status and image, “came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was it’s own ticket of admission.” these people barely knew Gatsby at all and more than half of them never even met him. “Whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements.” (add more analysis) The party goers also gossiped about Gatsby: “he killed a man once.” “he was a german spy during the war” they did it all to drag Gatsby’s image down thus increasing theirs. (transition) Nick and Jordan stumbled around looking for their host when they found Owl Eyes. Who was astonished that Gatsby’s books were real and not “nice durable cardboard.” Owl Eyes was under the impression that Gatsby was trying to improve his image by looking intelligent with his large book collection, but despite his assumptions, Gatsby was “a regular

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When Gatsby’s dies no-one goes to his funeral. This illuminates that even though he had large parties with many people at them. His relationships were not genuine and no one truly cared. In conclusion, through Barret Browning’s sonnets and Fitzgerald’s novel

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By doing so, he realizes that this Gatsby is more than a mere upper class citizen, as he states “We all turned and looked around for Gatsby. It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world” (44). This holds an extreme importance to the story, as Gatsby is expressed to be more than just an ordinary man, but an idea which most people had, and wanted to know more of. This fulfills the theme of the hollowness of the upper class, by revealing that although the people in this setting were all from well-to-do homes, they still found it necessary to try to demean Gatsby’s accomplishment by spreading false rumors about him. In addition to this, Nick also meets the mysterious Gatsby in this chapter.

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Gatsby hosts extravagant parties in an effort not only to boost his social status, but also to look for Daisy. Many wealthy, and often wild people attend these large social events held by Mr. Gatsby. Some of the guests even come lacking an invitation, “Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.” (41)

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These parties were a euphoric sense of freedom. Although, it was freedom felt by the guests, but not so much by Gatsby himself. He didn’t seem to have a care in the world about how much money he had spent, as long as he had Daisy, which was a selfish thing to do. At his own parties, he rarely walked around to communicate with his own guests. He stood, and waited.

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