gatsby

gatsby

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”(Abraham Lincoln). What we think about people a lot of the time is just from what we see them doing. We don’t stop to try and get to know someone we just automatically assume things. Most people never get to know how someone truly is, because if they don’t work with were someone is in society we shouldn’t been seen with them. People shouldn’t rush to a conclusion about someone if they don’t know them. The Great Gatsby is full of flawed characters that do whatever they please and don’t stop to think of how other people might view them.
Gatsby is just one the many flawed characters in the book. Gatsby flaw is the fact that he is too attached to living in that passed and trying to change what has already happened. Gatsby has a hard time moving on. Gatsby is so stuck on trying to change the past that he doesn’t notice that the people around him are only hanging out with him because of the out lavish parties. “ The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.”(Fizgerald 74). When Gatsby first meets Daisy he is at a country club. The country club is holding a dance for all the soldiers, so that they can relax and act like the young teenagers that they are before they have to go off to war and fight. Daisy was that girl that all the soldiers wanted to dance with she was the bell of the ball, or the golden girl. Gatsby’s many flaws all point to the same person and that would be Daisy. “ Gatsby pale as death with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”(fitzgerald86). Gatsby acts like a love sick teenager when he arrives at Nicks house where Daisy is over...

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