THE GREAT GATSBY

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Bibek Singh

Period 2

9-15-07

The Great Gatsby

        Key passages in The Great Gatsby unlock and hint on what is to come in the future of the book. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . ."(179). This was an accurate description of the way Tom and Daisy acted. They were constantly neglectful of the way they behaved and when they realized they were wrong, they would retreat to their money. They were always mean to others and other people always had to pay for their mistakes. The actions and emotions of Tom and Daisy led to the death of Gatsby. Carelessness was one of the biggest themes in this book.

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        Although there are many central themes in The Great Gatsby, I believe that this quotation states one of the more powerful themes. This quotation illustrates Daisy and Tom’s affairs with other people and themselves. Nick is distressed by the way Daisy and Tom acted after the death of Gatsby. He is disgusted because Tom and Daisy did not show up at the funeral and they did not even care to send any condolences. Fitzgerald describes Tom, Daisy, and Jordan in such a way as to show to the readers what wealth can do to your social life. You begin to ...

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