Many characters can be accused of wanting perfection, Gatsby and Nick chief among them. Gatsby wanted a perfect copy of his life with Daisy. She couldn't give it to him, and his dream was shattered. Nick wanted a perfect woman. Jordan was honest and kind, and everything, but she cheated on one of her tournaments, so therefore she had to go. And Nick seems to let her go simply because she has flaws, he seems not to care about her as a person.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Reflection
Dreams can help you stay motivated, but they are most like a set of blinders. If you don't take them off, you stagger around with tunnel vision when the light of your dream goes out. Even worse is if you have dedicated your life to the following of this dream, because you have nothing else after your dream is over. Gatsby, Wilson, and Myrtle are each guilty of this flaw, and it proves fatal to them. What is interesting is that there is a cycle of blame of sorts around these three. Gatsby, for all intents and purposes, killed Myrtle, she killed Wilson with her betrayal, and Wilson killed Gatsby, who killed Myrtle, and so on and so on.
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Great analogy between the blinders and the tunnel vision! Being blind-sighted by blinders, such as in horse racing, is a great symbolization of how one's vision often gets focused on one goal. As you said, if we, like Gatsby, follow our dreams without regard for the rest of the world going on around us, then we lose out on other opportunities. Sometimes, these results also include an unfortunate event, such as in the case of Gatsby's death, but I don't think anyone directly associated with us would have this problem.
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