The Great Gatsby Isolation

Furthermore, her thoughts of isolation among the crowded streets, her “perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone” (8), her realization “she must inevitably cease completely” (9), and her acknowledgement of what “the late age of the world’s experience had bred in them” (9) seems to align with the aforementioned Nietzschean awakening, and this awakening seems to be taking place in many of the novel’s other characters. Peter, Septimus and Lucrezia, Carrie Dempster, Maisie Johnson – all are confronted to some extent with the shortcomings of their expectations and beliefs, with the failings of the systems in which they had placed their faith, and with their own increasing