Examples Of Insecurities In The Great Gatsby

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According to Dictionary.com, insecurity is defined as “lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt; Instability.” Everyone’s perceives life differently because not everyone has seen and experienced and lived through the same thing. So, people’s insecurities might be similar but they both have a different background. According to Dictionary.com perception is defined as “the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment.” So saying, we interpret and recognize comes from personal experience because if you haven’t been through something you can not recognize and interpret …show more content…
Through multiple media and books, we see insecurities through youth and adults, books such as Perks of Being A Wallflower with the youth and then books like The Great Gatsby where his insecurities are different because he’s and adult. How other people see our own insecurities changes the way we see ourselves.
After finding out person insecurities a thought is gathered a new notion for how life is lived. Insecurities shape a life style it tells the do and do not. It could hinder or grow depending on how it is looked at and from who it is looked at by. The book “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” deals with youth insecurities very well. The main character Charlie wasn’t much confident yet he noticed everything to do with everyone, he was and outcast that looked in although some may see that as a bad sad way to live life Charlie liked it that way he liked not being in attention. Charlie on page 4 says
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More modernly teens are shaped and changed by social media and being able to get the likes and shares is a form of insecurity that youth and some adults share. While others say adult insecurity is more with the job and responsibility health and many more. From a psychologist named Carlin Flora that wrote the article “Metaperception: How Do You see Yourself” goes to say, “Your ideas about what others think of you hinge on your self-concept—your own beliefs about who you are.” That quotes aims at youth and adults because its true if people all didn’t care what others thought there would be chaos because those insecurities and caring shape who people become in guidelines on what to do and what not to do. If someone changes they preconceived thought of how you already perceived yourself it makes you very timid and not feeling at the best. Also another quote from Nikki Snapp from her article “How to Find Yourself Through Your Perception Of Others” she goes to say, “our perception of others has nothing to do with them and everything to do with us. Our own perception about people that we meet based on our own relationship with ourselves and our own personal traits.” Same thing people are perceieved the way we do because of our personal traits and what we know tells us to look at them and think this specific way. Another quote from Simon Fuller “What anger us in another person is more often than