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The Great Gatsby - Online Term Paper

The Great Gatsby

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retracted back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess that they had made . . ."
In the book, by F. Scott Fitzgerald it is suggested that self discovery can involve a process of disillusionment with oneself and one's friends. The above quote is an example of Nick's realization of how different he is from the people of the east, and Tom and Daisy in particular. Nick goes to great lengths to establish his own credibility and moral integrity in the reader. From the time he moves to west egg he is in an atmosphere of ...

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an upbringing he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" about other people, but he then goes on to say "tolerance has a limit".
With Gatsby, Nick admits he makes an exception of judging. He is prepared to suspend both the moral code of his upbringing and the limit of his intolerance, because of Gatsby's "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness". This is an exception that he will make for Gatsby and not anyone else in the novel. Nick overlooks Gatsbys bootlegging, and his association with Meyer Wolfshiem, the man Gatsby said fixed the world series in 1919. Yet he is contemptuous to Jordan Baker for cheating in a game of golf. Nick says that he is prepared to forgive this sort of behavior in a woman, "It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame to deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot". It seems he cannot accept her for being "incurably dishonest". He then describes himself, as having one "cardinal virtue" that he is "one of ...

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Added: 4/26/2004 11:00:16 AM
Category: English
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