The Great Gatsby 5 Paragraph Analysis
The 1920s in the U.S. is a golden age. More and more rich and powerful people appeared in America, everyone wanted to live in that high class society. In this materialistic world, people missing in their voluptuous life, throw away their less poor morality, and measure everything they see with interests. That makes the interpersonal relationships in upper society is built on the foundation of interests like money and status, also the relationships will disappear with the loss of interests.
Money build up the bridge of relationships. Human nature was materialized in that time. The reference point of a person is how rich he is. Because of that, people have been divided in to different classes. That means all of your friends are live in the same …show more content…
Gatsby usually driving illegal, but he never care about ticket because “[he] was able to do the commissioner a favor once. …” Normally when we talking about a friend, we will say his name first and then introduce other things, but Gatsby only said “The commissioner”. He was do the commissioner’s identity a favor, but not the person who is the commissioner. The friendship between Gatsby and the commissioner is built on status, it’s still a kind of mutually beneficial relationship for …show more content…
Upper class people enjoy all of the benefit you gave to them, but they’ll never assume any of the negative effect. “Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby’s house that summer. From East Egg, then, came the Cheater Beckers and … All these people came to Gatsby’s house in the summer.” Those pages of names shown how many friends Gatsby had, but why none of them come to Gatsby’s funeral? Meyer Wolf-shiem tell us the reason: “‘Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,’ he suggested. ‘After that my own rule is to let everything alone.’” That means people should take full advantage of reciprocal relationships when they’re alive, and become stranger when this relationship gone. People only remember the benefit you given to them, but nobody care who you really are. All of the interests built the relationship in upper society, but also destroy it in the
Money build up the bridge of relationships. Human nature was materialized in that time. The reference point of a person is how rich he is. Because of that, people have been divided in to different classes. That means all of your friends are live in the same …show more content…
Gatsby usually driving illegal, but he never care about ticket because “[he] was able to do the commissioner a favor once. …” Normally when we talking about a friend, we will say his name first and then introduce other things, but Gatsby only said “The commissioner”. He was do the commissioner’s identity a favor, but not the person who is the commissioner. The friendship between Gatsby and the commissioner is built on status, it’s still a kind of mutually beneficial relationship for …show more content…
Upper class people enjoy all of the benefit you gave to them, but they’ll never assume any of the negative effect. “Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby’s house that summer. From East Egg, then, came the Cheater Beckers and … All these people came to Gatsby’s house in the summer.” Those pages of names shown how many friends Gatsby had, but why none of them come to Gatsby’s funeral? Meyer Wolf-shiem tell us the reason: “‘Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,’ he suggested. ‘After that my own rule is to let everything alone.’” That means people should take full advantage of reciprocal relationships when they’re alive, and become stranger when this relationship gone. People only remember the benefit you given to them, but nobody care who you really are. All of the interests built the relationship in upper society, but also destroy it in the