(1) “She was the first “nice” girl he had ever known”
Daisy was the first girl that was ever “nice” to Gatsby and not just faking it to him. In the world today a lot of people are like that and that is faking appearance due to what someone has. Some girls come across a guy with a lot of money and even if they aren’t attracted to them, will marry the guy for the money. Then the girl will divorce the guy and take all the money they can get from the divorce. That was different for Gatsby with Daisy because she liked him for the person inside and not for how much money he had. (107 words)
(2)“If that was true he must of felt that he has lost the whole warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”
This quote is basically the whole life of Gatsby and the theme of the book. He built up this whole wonderful world with the single dream of Daisy. Once this dream was crushed the whole world around him started to feel cold and lonely. This happens all the time in society. People create these dreams that make them feel so wonderful inside that right when the dream fails, they break. The dream that created a wonderful world doesn’t exist anymore instead the person feels lost and my life will never get great again. This happens so much because people get that one wonderful thing and do not want to think anyone could be better. (115 words)
(3)“Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let the other people clean up the mess they had made”
Tom and Daisy are the most hated and selfish characters in the novel. They are so careless on what they do in life that all they create is disaster and messes for other people to clean up. By them taking a vacation they are retreating to their money instead of manning up and taking responsibility for their actions. It is really sad that they think they can get away with anything because someone will be there to clean up the mess created by the two. People in today’s world actually expect someone will clean up their accidents because they have this money or power. This is sad because they can be as careless as they want knowing they will face no consequences for whatever event occurs. (127 words)
(4)”I raised him up out of nothing. Right out of the gutter.”
People who help people when they are at the worse and raise them to be someone special. The person sees they have something special and do not want them to waste that talent by staying in a gutter. The only bad thing is when the person because famous and successful they usually forget the person who raised them from nothing to that star. That is the problem with people is we are never thankful to the friends and family that help us when we are down and guide us to this success. (92 words)
(5)”Nobody came.”
After Gatsby dies you start to see how people really felt about Gatsby when the funeral is held and only his dad and Nick show up. When Gatsby was alive everybody came to his parties that he threw but right when he passes away people are apparently to busy to attend. This shows the shallowness of people because they where buddies with him when he had the money and threw the lavish parties but we can’t attend the funeral of the person who supplied this. What happened to Gatsby happens to some unfortunate soul in the world that thought he had true friends that would be there for him when he passed away. The reality is that there are a lot of people who use other people for their gain that won’t be there when needed. (138 words)
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