Who Is The Great Gatsby's Identity In Crisis

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In life times are not always easy, sometimes the unexpected happens and you have to adapt accordingly. During these hard times, it shows who a person truly is on the inside. Many people panic and are not fit for tough situations, but others thrive in these situations. The kind of person who thrives, and are built for tough situations I think are the kind of people you should be friends with and surround yourself with. The fact that a persons true colors show during a crisis is shown in real life personal experiences, and also throughout most literature and movies. Some examples of literature I have read that portrays this are The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. One movie that truly shows ones identity in crisis is 12 years …show more content…

This is shown in The Great Gatsby. In the Great Gatsby it appears that Jay Gatsby is the perfect person throughout the story. He has money, is popular, kind, and truthful a good person. When times are going good in the story and he gets Daisy, which is what he has wanted his whole life he appears to be happy and a positive influence on the people around him. During the scene where Gatsby is confronting Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan all goes wrong. Going in to the conversation he was expecting Daisy to tell her husband that she never really loved him at all, but she did not. She said “I did love him once – but I loved you too.” This upset Jay and caused him to panic. This is when Jay Gatsby’s true self is shown. Tom is being very confrontational with him, trying to convince Daisy that she loves him, yet he stays calm. This si when Jay loses his cool. He yells and pins Tom against the wall and makes himself seem like a fool. Described in Chapter 7 Gatsby “looked–and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden–as if he had “killed a man.” This showed that Gatsby truly was a bad man and he was just hiding well throughout the whole story. When Daisy noticed this she immediately made up her mind that she wanted to be with