Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald (pg 154-170)

In chapter 8 you finally find out how Daisy and Gatsby met.  Their meeting sounds very fantastical.  For only being with her for a month Gatsby show a lot of determination to love her for five years.  I find it interesting how he describes Daisy as being mysterious when he met her.  This is kind of similar to how Nick had met Gatsby in a mysterious manner.  “But now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail” (Fitzgerald 156).  This quote reminds me of Indiana Jones.  In one of the movies he searches for the Holy Grail.  In real life know one knows were it is and it seems to be a fruitless effort.  This is the point I think Fitzgerald was trying to make. He is saying Gatsby’s quest seamed to be hopeless but he was eternally bound to fallow it.  “‘I don’t think she ever loved him’” ((Fitzgerald 158).           This quote seems to show Gatsby’s insecurities. He is trying to give himself a pep talk and still looking to Nick for support.

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