Relationships In The Great Gatsby

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Kaeley McKenzie
American Literature
Mrs. Crawford
Mrs. Bowles
26 March 2018
The relationships between the characters within The Great Gatsby
Throughout the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald compares the connections between Gatsby/Daisy, Tom/Myrtle, Nick/Jordan; there are importance to these individuals. They can be between lovers, friends, and families. The novel shows these, but also the wrong types of relationships such as people having affairs.Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the relationships between the different characters, are dysfunctional, arrogant and materialistic.
One can see that Gatsby and Daisy both don’t know how to cope with their feelings, Daisy Buchanan is a wealthy, hard-to get, alcoholic woman. Her …show more content…
Fitzgerald writes “I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet. Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face. It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before” (157). Jordan is an appealing women to the eyes but on the inside she is a cheat, not only in professional golf but also in her and Nick’s love. In the novel “The Great Gatsby,” it explains how she's dishonest, hard, cool, insolent and deceptive. Another thing is she "hates careless people" (3), although she hates careless people she is to careless in a way. When she is driving she just assumes other drivers will be careful and get out of her way. For example: “
They'll keep out of my way, “It takes two to make an accident” ( Chapter 9 ).
Lastly Tom and Myrtle together are lovers, like Daisy she longs for the life of the wealthy, Tom however is established as masculine,careless, aggressive and most importantly dangerous. Nick Carraway speaks of her characteristics in the novel in many ways but for one example: “He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather …show more content…
Between Gatsby who is the title character and protagonist of the novel; Daisy who is Nick’s cousin, the woman Gatsby loves and both of their tragic love, Tom who is an arrogant and a hypocritical bully. His social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism, Myrtle who is Tom’s lover where they both have a love affair, Nick the novel’s narrator and Jordan who is Daisy’s friend, a woman with whom Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel and their unfaithful marriage. It hits the importance about these individuals, that they can be between lovers, friends and

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