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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Gatsby & Myrtle
In my essay I am going to focus on Myrtle and Gatsby and how they are dreamers and represent the American dream. when they die they are part of the American dream dying. Myrtle and Gatsby are the dreamers of the book. When we first meet Myrtle she is full of energy, she has plans, dreams, so many things that she wants to do that she has to write them down. Gatsby lives this as well, he has parties every night and a major dream to be back with daisy, once he has this he will have everything. He plans parties everyday and is always ready for an adventure. he does stuff. When myrtle dies this marks a dreamer dying and a dream dying because Gatsby is starting see that he won't be able to be with Daisy. Once Gatsby dies all the dreamers are dead and there is no one else with a plan or a dream and the American dream is over. Even the field of ashes doesn't seem the same.
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Hayden,
ReplyDeleteThis approach seems like a very fruitful one (just make sure that your comparison of Gatsby and Myrtle--the crushed dreamers--is in service of some larger statement about the meaning of the novel as a whole, i.e. the idea that Fitzgerald is writing about the death of said dream). You might want to check out some of my comments on related posts above, like Maria Alexa's (it may appear under the tag of "EmilyL"). Have some fun with this!