Toxic Relationships In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

1) My favorite piece we read was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is really meaningful and was so much fun to read. With this book, there are a lot of loose strings that remain unanswered. It’s one that you can read over and over and analyze and still be left with questions. I found myself wanting more and wanting a sequel. I think it was meaningful to me because I enjoyed it. Commonly when I’m assigned a book I end up disliking it and not reading as intently as I should be. For The Great Gatsby, I chose to focus on toxic relationships, because it’s a major theme in the book. Not only is it major but if these people weren’t in these relationships, then the entire story could have been avoided. I believe toxic relationships stem from toxic people. And as I think everyone in the story has a level of toxicity, Jordan is a pathological liar, Daisy is an emotional gold digger, and Gatsby is obsessive. The only person in this whole tale who isn’t toxic is Nick himself. He leaves town and says “ I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.” (1) which tells the reader just how traumatizing this situation was. Nick was the middleman. He did nothing to cause this and certainly didn’t deserve it in my opinion.

Because he puts Gatsby on this sort of pedestal, everything Gatsby does is highlighted. He was the root of the problem, but even with that fact, he is the only person that was exempt from his distaste. “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” (1) He says the only reason he feels that way is because Gatsby is dead. If he left to go back home, not because his closest friend, if you could even call him that, died. People tend to bring light to people who have passed and that’s exactly was Nick has