Thursday, August 9, 2012

Hit and Run to a Crash and Burn

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pages 136-145

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind," (Fitzgerald, 125).

And Mr. Wilson is simple-minded indeed. After finally noticing the very public affair of your wife, locking her away in her room seems to be the simplest way of dealing with an obviously very complex issue. Yet, his wife must also share in his simple-mindedness if she thinks running in front of a speeding car in an attempt to catch its attention is a good idea.

Survival of the fittest, I guess...

After the shock of one mistress dying passed, I was confronted by yet another involving the other mistress. Daisy had attempted to steer herself into the path of oncoming traffic, but she lost her nerve and turned back the other direction and instead ended up killing her own husband's mistress.

Talk about a twisted love story!

Again, we are presented a Mr. Gatsby standing in the moonlight, adoring his love from a distance. Only this time, he is in a completely different position. At the beginning of the story, he was working his way to confronting his long lost love, but now, she is drifting away from him. The parallelism here is really cool. As his physical distance to Daisy shortened, she grew farther away from him emotionally.

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