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The Great Gatsby Family Analysis

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Family is a person that’s always there for you, it doesn’t necessarily have to be your blood. Family is the people that’s loyal to you, the people that won’t turn their back on you when you need it most. Which gets me to the books Of Mice And Men, The Great Gatsby and the article “The Baby Boom For Gay Parent’s”. In OMAM the relationship between Lennie and George was strong. They considered each other family even though they weren’t blood. They also both depended on each other a lot. In TGG Nick and Gatsby had a strong relationship too, Nick looked really admired Gatsby and Gatsby showed some affection towards Nick as well even though he was really using him to get to his cousin. In the article TBBGP none of the gay parents children were related at all, but they were still family because of their bond and their situation. There’s a saying you …show more content…

Nick really looked up to Gatsby because Gatsby had everything in life a nice house, a nice car and a lot of money. Gatsby kind of used Nick to get to his cousin Daisy because Gatsby was really in love with her. Gatsby literally based his life on getting Daisy back. Gatsby used to be poor and he thought Daisy didn’t like him because of that so he became rich to get her back and wounds up dying for her. The first time they met at one of Gatsby parties Gatsby greets Nick with a warm smile full of understanding. Nick said Gatsby had in quoted “‘one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance that you may come across four or five times in life'. That shows how happy Nick was to meet Gatsby. Since Nick was the narrator the ready never really knew how Gatsby really felt about Nick the reader can assume he considered Nick family. The reader could also assume Gatsby felt as though Nick was his family because the girl he loves his Nick’s cousin. So really in order to get to Daisy he had to consider Nick family or at least treat him like

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