The story of The Great Gatsby is mine too in a way. I am the fair Daisy Faye who fell for Jay Gatsby pretending to be a solider. A great resounding love that shook the universe and shook my destiny forever.
Then Gatsby left for war, he could return to Daisy , but he didn't want to return until he was a rich man. The trouble and irony is once Gatsby had the riches , Daisy didn't want him as much and had decided to marry Tom Buchanan . I think she was in love with Tom for a small moment. But her heart always belonged to Gatsby.
But she doesn't care about the people she leaves in her path. She didn't care that she killed Myrtle after telling Tom she loved Gatsby. Gatsby should have left Daisy alone after forcing her to tell Tom she didn't love him anymore. He couldn't see how vulnerable she was. How she doesn't handle herself well.
Gatsby looks so mild , then he has a look on his face like Nick said , " that he had killed another man." When he held Tom with his fists after his and Daisy's confession.
The way he held her hand to light her cigarette in her quivering hand , like she was made of fragile glass and he was blessed to touch it. Touch it as a lover. And looked in her eyes because she was his Queen.
That was as much a confession of love as any word more so intact. Then he tells Tom that Daisy never loved him. Tom looks at Daisy with anger in a " I knew it" way. Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom again that she never loved him. She does , " I don't love you , I never loved you ."
Then " I loved you both at the same time."
Gatsby goes mad with rage at Tom and locks him in his deathly stare. Its really scary because you never see him look angry or bothered at all through out the movie . So jovial . But it must be a mask to hide the pain. His feelings of inadequacy in front of Daisy , his crumbling business as a bootlegger, feeling like he didn't have any parents . Feeling like he was "born to be a God", as Nick Carraway put it.
Gatsby doesn't have a place for his negative emotions , all of his concentration is on obtaining Daisy. Does he love her , or is she just one his "treasures" that proves he is the man of wealth and power he always dreamed of being?
At first I thought for sure it was love, but could it just be that as a pretty , intelligent , and exciting girl she was just magnificent like all of his other treasures , something to just prove his worth beyond a penniless nobody living in the middle of nowhere with two incorrect parents.
One part that movie really did well on was the parties. I didn't see how lavish they were in the books. Not like the movie showed it. The twenties were all about letting go, people didn't' have any reason to fear with the First World War over. The threat of invasion by any country was gone.
And they had gained so much reparations and so much business , such an unnaturally high amount of financial good luck burned it self out with nasty repercussions.
With nothing to fear and worry about. The wine flowed like water and the parties burned like the most condensed fuel.
Concern , worry , excess , sadness weren't on the public's mind. We all have this money( even the poorer folk partied and found excesses if they could manage it) , might as well go crazy , invest and party. Sleep around and live the new life of excess.
They barely touched on it , but drugs were prevalent in the early twenties. I don't think society has really gotten past that , especially not modern convenience store 7/11 24 hours a day / 7 days a week society. Anything you want in your hand nearly instantaneously. They drugged themselves to celebrate and maybe to stop themselves from thinking of the horrors of war they didn't want to relive.
I think we ( well most of modern America) is living a similar life. Modern conveniences like McDonalds and Arbys , ( even though it is junk ) it is available any time and even people without much money can afford it. Disposable water bottles , condoms littering the streets , newspapers , pop cans , beer bottles.
TV , Radio , I pod , I pad , I phone , laptop. Any convenience we can dream up is always available to distract and drug you into a happy stupor. Feel unhappy after a nasty breakup , go see a movie. Had a bad day buy a Hagen Dazz . Want a real buzz you can easily get some marijuana and coke even though it is certainly illegal like alcohol was in the twenties.
We haven't had any World Wars lately.
We have just be taught to be careless and wasteful like Daisy and Tom. Thanks to the unnatural booms after two world wars we have continued to modernize and innovate new products and markets into a super inflated , super wasteful and debt filled society.
I wonder if we well get super inflated again and experience another depression. It would some huge economic event ( IE: world war) to really super inflate it again.
I wonder how we all would do without our modern "necessities" for one week?
Then Gatsby left for war, he could return to Daisy , but he didn't want to return until he was a rich man. The trouble and irony is once Gatsby had the riches , Daisy didn't want him as much and had decided to marry Tom Buchanan . I think she was in love with Tom for a small moment. But her heart always belonged to Gatsby.
But she doesn't care about the people she leaves in her path. She didn't care that she killed Myrtle after telling Tom she loved Gatsby. Gatsby should have left Daisy alone after forcing her to tell Tom she didn't love him anymore. He couldn't see how vulnerable she was. How she doesn't handle herself well.
Gatsby looks so mild , then he has a look on his face like Nick said , " that he had killed another man." When he held Tom with his fists after his and Daisy's confession.
The way he held her hand to light her cigarette in her quivering hand , like she was made of fragile glass and he was blessed to touch it. Touch it as a lover. And looked in her eyes because she was his Queen.
That was as much a confession of love as any word more so intact. Then he tells Tom that Daisy never loved him. Tom looks at Daisy with anger in a " I knew it" way. Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom again that she never loved him. She does , " I don't love you , I never loved you ."
Then " I loved you both at the same time."
Gatsby goes mad with rage at Tom and locks him in his deathly stare. Its really scary because you never see him look angry or bothered at all through out the movie . So jovial . But it must be a mask to hide the pain. His feelings of inadequacy in front of Daisy , his crumbling business as a bootlegger, feeling like he didn't have any parents . Feeling like he was "born to be a God", as Nick Carraway put it.
Gatsby doesn't have a place for his negative emotions , all of his concentration is on obtaining Daisy. Does he love her , or is she just one his "treasures" that proves he is the man of wealth and power he always dreamed of being?
At first I thought for sure it was love, but could it just be that as a pretty , intelligent , and exciting girl she was just magnificent like all of his other treasures , something to just prove his worth beyond a penniless nobody living in the middle of nowhere with two incorrect parents.
One part that movie really did well on was the parties. I didn't see how lavish they were in the books. Not like the movie showed it. The twenties were all about letting go, people didn't' have any reason to fear with the First World War over. The threat of invasion by any country was gone.
And they had gained so much reparations and so much business , such an unnaturally high amount of financial good luck burned it self out with nasty repercussions.
With nothing to fear and worry about. The wine flowed like water and the parties burned like the most condensed fuel.
Concern , worry , excess , sadness weren't on the public's mind. We all have this money( even the poorer folk partied and found excesses if they could manage it) , might as well go crazy , invest and party. Sleep around and live the new life of excess.
They barely touched on it , but drugs were prevalent in the early twenties. I don't think society has really gotten past that , especially not modern convenience store 7/11 24 hours a day / 7 days a week society. Anything you want in your hand nearly instantaneously. They drugged themselves to celebrate and maybe to stop themselves from thinking of the horrors of war they didn't want to relive.
I think we ( well most of modern America) is living a similar life. Modern conveniences like McDonalds and Arbys , ( even though it is junk ) it is available any time and even people without much money can afford it. Disposable water bottles , condoms littering the streets , newspapers , pop cans , beer bottles.
TV , Radio , I pod , I pad , I phone , laptop. Any convenience we can dream up is always available to distract and drug you into a happy stupor. Feel unhappy after a nasty breakup , go see a movie. Had a bad day buy a Hagen Dazz . Want a real buzz you can easily get some marijuana and coke even though it is certainly illegal like alcohol was in the twenties.
We haven't had any World Wars lately.
We have just be taught to be careless and wasteful like Daisy and Tom. Thanks to the unnatural booms after two world wars we have continued to modernize and innovate new products and markets into a super inflated , super wasteful and debt filled society.
I wonder if we well get super inflated again and experience another depression. It would some huge economic event ( IE: world war) to really super inflate it again.
I wonder how we all would do without our modern "necessities" for one week?
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