Acceptance In The Great Gatsby

Acceptance comes from deep inside a person. Every individual has been through something in life that they have had trouble accepting. I have been taught how to accept a situation for what it is by A Raisin in the Sun, The Great Gatsby, and The Red Badge of Courage.
In A Raisin in the Sun, The Great Gatsby, and The Red Badge of Courage, I have learned that acceptance is the key to life. A Raisin in the Sun is a story about a non-wealthy family that comes into money. The mother of the family lost her husband and the inherited ten thousand dollars from insurance. The mother is overwhelmed with the suggestions from her children on what to do with the money. As I continued to read, I noticed that the message was acceptance. To accept what you have,
Ellen Glanz is a teacher who had gone back to school to catch up on missed information. Ellen had accepted the fact that she was just like the students. She was being dishonest and manipulative just as they were. Ellen accepted that those actions had become what a students’ life is about. In The Great Gatsby I saw another form of acceptance. Nick, one of the main characters, accepted that no one was there for Jay Gatsby. He knew that Gatsby had very minimum friends and that was okay to him. Nick did everything in his power to make sure Gatsby was not alone on his resting day. Although very few people showed up for Gatsby’s funeral, Nick knew he was enough. He accepted that the friendship they had was enough to make him happy. He knew that having more than a handful of people show up for Gatsby’s funeral did not mean as much as their friendship. Baker, the author of “School VS. Education”, stated in his writing, “Early in this stage, the child learns that he is either dumb or smart” (1008). Baker has written about the stages of children in school. The quote I have stated above is talking about how the teachers react to the children: which informs the child if he or she is dumb or