Examples Of Friendship In The Great Gatsby

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Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, friendship is a genuinely significant theme. A “friend” is a person who has a bond of mutual affection, but over the duration of the novel, it is realized that not even your friends will always have your back. Anyone can sympathize with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature of sympathy to care for friends when they are striving with prosperity. Meyer Wolfsheim, claims, “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not when he is dead” (Fitzgerald Chapter 9). The emotional conduct of friends not only invokes to the empathy shown when someone is viable, but when they are deceased as well. Even in present day, people seem to care so much more when someone is dead rather than when they are still kicking. During the funeral of Gatsby, no one even shows up. All of those party people who took advantage of his belongings and wealth, yet no one can clear their schedule to celebrate the life of a “great man.” Maybe Nick was right after all when he states, “they were a rotten crowd” (Fitzgerald 154). By only using him for his bankroll, they were truthfully disrespectful. Gatsby is consistently engaged and willing to take the animadversion for …show more content…
He is there for him with everything. Whether is be trying to win over a girl by planning a tea party for them, or outlining a funeral for him. Even after growing a certain disdain for Gatsby, not once did he use him for his money. Even when Gatsby offers, he denies. As demonstrated, Gatsby can truly trust Nick. Just like memories, Gatsby is interpreted differently by others, and no one knows the real truth about him; only small pieces. He tells Nick the actual truth about his past, and also sincerely invites him to his parties, rather than him just showing up. Nick respects Gatsby home, while others are getting inebriated and treating his home like an amusement