Wednesday, April 6, 2011

paradoxing it up!!

"For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for hi imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing." pg 65

Whatt Fairys in Gatsby?? This flowery language is kind of my thing! Anyways, I really liked this paradox because it helped clarify to me the need for Gatsby to be this person that he obviously works so hard to keep up for Daisy. That person is a rich, sophisticated working man with a pretty fly pink suit. When Fitzgerald begins to really delve into the mind of Gatsby the reader learns of his belief that everything will work out in his favor because it must, because he worked so hard to obtain his goal. His goal being Daisy and the unreality that he sees in what is really happening or the reality is that he will steal Daisy away from Tom. He will steal her away because they have always loved each other. But I seem to have seen from the beggining that Daisy is incapable of deep love or if she is will never risk going for it because she loves her money and everything that she already knows. She will not step outside her little box.

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