Krissy Gear Mrs. Jones IB English III 29 September 2015 Myrtle vs. Daisy and the Use of Color Imagery The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this essay I will be contrasting the characters of Myrtle Wilson and Daisy Buchanan, paying close attention to Fitzgerald’s use of color imagery to characterize them. The Great Gatsby takes place in New York; primarily in two cities know as East and West Egg, which lie opposite from each other, separated by a river. The book is Nick Carraway’s recollection of his time spent in New York after moving there to start in the bond business.
Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy’s Relationship Introduction The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald displayed several cases of unhealthy relationships, but he mainly focuses on Jay Gatsby’s and Daisy Buchanan's affair. Within all of the romance, money and social status play a huge role, but its Gatsby’s and Daisy that varied the most. Jay Gatsby portrays a character that does not have a past and is looking for a future while Daisy was handed her future. Readers often conclude that Jay Gatsby was the least to blame for his and Daisy’s failed relationship, but it was neither Gatsby nor Daisy’s fault.
Happiness is something humans have been pursuing for centuries. The quest for happiness is so cemented in the minds of human beings that it has been used as a method of control, and as a weapon against others. Humans are moths, ever drawn to the distant flame of joy. Over the past year I have learned much about this pursuit that has plagued humans for millennia. Pieces of literature like The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men and The Devil and Tom Walker all explore this pursuit in unique and diverse ways.
Living A Lie The Roaring Twenties as an era full of pizzazz, glamour and ambition. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author illustrates his thoughts and opinions on many societal issues through the use of setting, characters and context. The valuable qualities of the 1920’s hides the true identity of the generation. In particular, the contrast of Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson emphasizes the moral corruption in society.
Throughout the narrative, Nick becomes disgusted by careless people which results in his desire to condemn others for their selfish actions and his choice to go back home. Ewing Klipspringer is a very careless character in The Great Gatsby. He benefited probably more than anyone from Gatsby, he was always at the parties and basically lived there. People even called him the boarder, as in a boarding house or hotel. Even though Klipspringer was living rent-free and benefiting from Gatsby, he never went to Gatsby’s funeral.
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” Garrison Keillor, has been called, "One of the most perceptive and witty commentators about Midwestern life" by Randall Balmer in Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby shows how blind he is when it comes to Daisy. In the novel Gatsby shows the love and compassion that he has for Daisy. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby reveals the compassion he has for Daisy throughout the choices that he makes.
Maya Lin once said, “To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.” The character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby and the novel’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, certainly exhibit this quote. Further, there were many similarities between Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both Gatsby and Fitzgerald had a passionate, infatuating love for a woman, and both had an initiative to be successful.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is known for having a lot of cheating people, even if it’s cheating in a golf game or cheating on a person. One of the many characters that is a cheater is Tom Buchanan. Tom is married to a lady that goes by the name of Daisy and has a lover named Myrtle. He is also known for moving around a lot and having plenty of money to do so. Tom in “The Great Gatsby” is careless and racist.
Daisy choose money over love. Despite her love for Gatsby but she married Tom. Tom finds out Gatsby background and wealth and she is affected and wants Tom again. " Tom gave a string of pearls valued at Tyree hundred and fifty thousand dollars" for a wedding gift (F. Scott Fitzgerald 77). She is now betrayed by her husband with another woman.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.
In the novel, one character who stands out the greatest as trying to fulfill his dreams is Jay Gatsby. He has the most determination out of all the characters in the book. Gatsby begins to become well known when he starts to become rich. He lives in a giant mansion, and hosts extravagant parties due to him, believing wealth will solve his problems. One of the reasons he strives to be successful and rich is so that he can win over the love of his life, Daisy, and pursue happiness.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Daisy consistently deceives the other characters in the novel through how they appear and act. Near the beginning of the novel, Daisy acts consistently angelic, surrounded by bright lights and white. The color white is typically associated with purity and heavenly, but as the novel progresses, it is clearly shown that she is not. This is shown by how Daisy interacts with the people in the lower class.
People want to love and to be loved; yet life gets complicated when the person you love doesn’t feel the same way about you. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that Tom is obsessed with Daisy and wants her to proclaim her love for him. Gatsby’s life revolves around his love for Daisy, although Daisy does not feel the same way about Gatsby. Gatsby thinks the love from Daisy is real even though she doesn’t truly love him. Gatsby tries to convince Daisy’s husband, Tom, that Daisy is in love with Gatsby.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby sees Daisy as his ideal woman. Gatsby creates an image of Daisy in his mind of which he believes is perfect and ideal. Gatsby pictures her as flawless and absolute, which she is not. Fitzgerald discusses that Gatsby deeply believes that Daisy is the ideal woman for him even though she falls short of his dreams of being that. Even though Daisy cannot be the woman Gatsby wants her to be he still does not give up on her.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway are among the most prominent exponents of literature of the twentieth century. Forming part of the Lost Generation, these authors not only develop similar themes throughout their works, but heavily influenced each other. The Great Gatsby being Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, serves as a prime illustration of the staples of contemporary literature. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, the author depicts himself through a character, Nick Carraway, conforming to other self depiction common in the Lost Generation, such as Hemingway in the Nick Adams stories. Nick Carraway and Nick Adams represent Fitzgerald and Hemingway, both serving as apertures into Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s view of the world.
