Using the quotations below, compose a detailed paragraph that examines one of the underlying themes from the novel. Attempt to incorporate sophisticated vocabulary, dual adjectives, parallelism, metaphor etc...
“he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high” (89)
"no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart." (93).
“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me” (66)
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before any words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek, and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car. (82)
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” (105)
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced-or seemed to face- the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with irresistible prejudice in your favour(49)
Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. (90)
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known (59)
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to here perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited. (107)
He wants her to see his house (77)
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Sam Coutu
Jay Gatsby has built up great wealth and a fake image to impress the woman that he loves. "He wants her to see his house." Jordan say's this to Nick because she wants him to have Daisy over for a visit one day. When she comes over, Gatsby's plan is to show up and then she daisy his house. Years ago when James and Daisy were together, Gatsby had little money and it not satisfy Daisy's spoiled, and greedy needs. Because of this devestating fact, Daisy left Gatsby. Years later after accumulating great wealth he believed that he could win her back. He erected himself a monument of himself, but really he was a fasad. His dream is to have Dasiy and all of the work he has done was for her. If he does not win her back he will be devestated.
Marc, Paragraph
The underlying theme in the story thus far is lust. This theme has been shown by Gatsby throughout the entire novel so far. He has done all of this stuff just so that he could get with Daisy. He bought the car, he bought the house, and he bought the clothes. Clearly he shows his love for Daisy when he says “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” (105). This shows that he loves her because he knows that she is not happy being with Tom so he wants her to be happy. He will do anything to win the love of Daisy so that he could solve his dissonance.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a vivid theme of image. This “secret” society focuses on image in the way people dress, image of cars one drives, and image of how prosperous their houses are compared to one another. Revoltingly the main character Gatsby falls into the category of obsessing over ones prosperous image. When he shows Nick and Daisy his cabinet to show off his amenities, Nick describes the closets as being “hulking”, filled with “massed” suits, and shirts pilled like “bricks”. This shows us that Gatsby has a prosperous, bombastic image of attaining “bricks” because even though he has all these amenities of suits and shirts, he only attains these to conform and impress others in the society. The only reason he has all this is to impress Daisy so she will see his image as being better than her husbands and any man in the world for that matter because he has a gargantuan amount of amenities of nice, expensive shirts. He does this all for a prosperous image; therefore the theme of image is apparent.
-Pierre F
The strongest theme for the novel “the great Gatsby” is the idea of false identities and deceit. This is show in the quotation, “he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high” (89) This shows false identity and deceit because Gatsby got some man to pick up all these beautiful shirts so he can create himself an image to make Daisy fall back in love with him. Someone’s clothing is something that represents them and there true personality. Therefore, since Gatsby got some man to pick out these shirts clearly they do not represent his true personality and his look is full of deceit. Gatsby has these shirt pilled high in a closet to try and create a new image. Gatsby throws these mass parties with free food and beverages so he can create a new image. Gatsby buys this beautiful house across the bay from Daisy so she can see him as being a rich man. Gatsby is not the only person in this novel who creates this false identity everyone else is not who they appear. Nearly everyone in the novel is constantly telling lies and put on fake smiles. Everyone in this group of up class people try and come off with having a blissful life however there life is actually despondent. This novel is floating in lies and deceit. No one is who they actually appear to be.
- Sheena
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart” (93)
The theme of obsession is stated her. Gatsby’s dream and hope of obtaining Daisy has been fed with the love that he feels for her. With an idea, or a dream that is held with such sheer desperation, the instance of capturing this desire will not be as exciting as the anticipation. Obsession is never satisfied, Daisy can never give Gatsby what he desires, and this unquenchable thirst for her to say to her husband, Tom “I never loved you” will tear him apart. In Jay’s world, Daisy is a pure entity, the goddess on a pedestal that will never be loved more then him. In his dream world she would never say anything too crude, never reject him, and she would leave Tom. His vision is that Daisy would stay with Gatsby with no doubt in her heart, because he is her shinning night. This is all but Gatsby’s fantasy, and Daisy can never be what he has dreamt of these past five years. She is far from perfect and can never give Gatsby his “ghostly heart” what it desires.
~Caitlin~
The Great Gatsby is a novel of great distrust, dishonesty and hidden secrets. Throughout the novel the theme of hidden secrets is commonly presented thoroughly. During Gatsby’s party he ghostly wonders around conversing in conversations with others. Gatsby is conversing with strangers in the attempt to hide his secrets of his past. “I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” This quotation was said by Gatsby during one of his grandstanding parties. Strangers hardly ever ask personal question’s about individuals personal past’s this is why Gatsby is involving himself with strangers.
Hidden secrets about Gatsby’s past names, professions, friends, and duties is what he is slowly trying to camouflage from his daily life.
Morgan H.
The theme of deceit is shown throughout the novel through Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Tom has had a mistress for five years in the city of New York which he has repeatedly said he was going to leave Daisy for. His unfaithful feelings for this other women have caused Daisy to feel contempt towards her husband and the realization of her marriage. When Gatsby comes into the picture Daisy falls for him as she did in the past. She uses him to show Tom that she is not just a woman that he can discard anytime that he likes. The quote that shows the actions that Daisy has taken to get back at Tom is, “She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand.” This shows how Daisy is not very secretive this on-the-side relationship between her and Gatsby. She is using him to get back at Tom for cheating on her all this time. Tom and Daisy’s whole marriage is driven by their deceitful actions towards each other and how they can never just be. Gatsby has this idea in his head that there will be a happily ever after ending between him and Daisy. The deceit that is shown through the characters of Daisy and Tom will end up hurting Gatsby especially because he has built his whole life on the love that he has for Daisy.
patrick harris aka peen dog I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known # 59
This is nick talking to him self. He is talking about how he thinks that he is the only truthful person that he know and most of the people that he seems to surround him self with egotistical people that are not honest with them self and others and that fabricate this bombastic ,boisterous lives . But nick is not being totally truthful with you because he is for getting that on the side he is seeing Jordan. That shows use that even nick who seems the most honest of all the people in the story and still he is not being tremendously truthful with him self. This show you that one of the under lying themes in the novel is honesty. Why I would say this is because peoples honesty comes in to question a lot in this book.
The Great Gatsby is a novel of great distrust, dishonesty and hidden secrets. Throughout the novel the theme of hidden secrets is commonly presented thoroughly. During Gatsby’s party he ghostly wonders around conversing in conversations with others. Gatsby is conversing with strangers in the attempt to hide his secrets of his past. “I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” This quotation was said by Gatsby during one of his grandstanding parties. Strangers hardly ever ask personal question’s about individuals personal past’s this is why Gatsby is involving himself with strangers.
Hidden secrets about Gatsby’s past names, professions, friends, and duties is what he is slowly trying to camouflage from his daily life.
LOGAN
BYRON
The major theme through out the novel is deception, lies, and dishonesty. “he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high” (89). Gatsby is man who appears very classy and elegant, but he is not. Jay wishes to appear as though he is something that he is not. He had his minions search the world for the finest silks, the fanciest suits and the sportiest cars. He has acquired all of this for one reason and one reason alone, for Daisy. He could not woo Daisy when he was himself but he believes he can court her now that he has money. Several of his clothes have not even been worn; furthermore have not even been unwrapped from the fragile packaging. James Gatz has been devoured by Jay Gatsby and is now living an inscrutable life.
Mikaela Logan
The theme of false images is seen in the novel so far. We see that most of the characters in the novel are trying to hide themselves with deceit and lies. The theme of false images is most strongly seen in the character Jay Gatsby. So far in the novel we have seen that Gatsby built his big house and drives his nice cars and wears his nice clothes all to impress daisy. Gatsby believes that Daisy will not like him for who he is because of his rejection in the past, so he creates this eloquent fake image and throws these fake parties just to attract Daisy. The theme of false image is seen in the quotation “he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high”. This quotation is explain Gatsby closet when he shows is to daisy and Nick. This quote shows us that Gatsby has all these clothes and amenities just to impress Daisy. Gatsby does not wear all of these clothes they are just they to create an image for himself. Gatsby is using a false image to impress Daisy and this quote shows us how he is creating this image for himself. Clearly the theme of false image is seen in the novel so far.
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” (105)
The dream is something that keeps us going in the times we feel like the whole entire world around us has been destroyed. Some people spend their entire lives trying to achieve what the feel is there idyllic place to be. Often times people wrap themselves up in these visage, illusion, and dream that they lose touch with what the actual reality of the situation is. J. Gatsby is one of these dreamers. Gatsby has spent most of his life attempting to regain what he had once but lost. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” (105). This line demonstrates the unobtainable dream that Gatsby has which is to have Daisy for himself. “I never loved you” this line shows that Gatsby wants Daisy to be the person she was when he was dating him but we all know this will never happen. J. Gatsby is one of these dreamers who will be constantly stuck in the past.
Jack
Arie Gerritse - Like children we blindly chase those favorable dreams, promising an eternity of happiness in all graceful forms of life. Desires feed the craving of renewal and redemption, a utopia of the mind, vanity of elegance imposing truths entangled in sorrow and deceit. Gatsby has fashioned the presence of his love, superimposing perfection in a world with none “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to here perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited. (107)” The revelation of simplicity against fiction, the dream that was once held so dear would never be a dream if it was attainable. Daisy is but only a mortal with countless imperfections and blemish’s, expectations of a goddess bestowed upon her. This image in Gatsbys mind that is supporting a fabrication of a synthetic lover unattainable in the reality of sanity. This dream has driven all the actions in life, breathing and living the dream with every second of every day. This dream provides a hope of greatness; this fiction will always live with him until the end, with the reality of the situation might not be as impressive as is. This leads to the assumption that the dream has brought happiness and a forward derivative, which in many ways is healthier that the reality of Daisy.
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