Therefore, these people not only have no moral conscious, but they drink excessively and are entertained and thrilled by cheap gossip. In addition, Nick continues by saying that they went like moths “among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” As we have discussed numerous times, the whisperings indicate the enormous amount of gossip that occurs throughout Gatsby’s party the champagne is an obvious image, in that it indicates the excessive alcoholism that takes place during Gatsby’s parties as well. Therefore, Nick suggests that Gatsby’s guests just travel to wherever the wealth is this further highlights how superficial East Egg is. Moths are attracted to the light, and as we discussed, the light symbolizes the wealth. Like moths, their lives are already predestined they are being told where to go without any question.
This not only highlights on their incapability to form their own decisions, but it also indicates that Gatsby’s guests have no real agenda, plan, or life aspirations. Nick describes Gatsby’s guests as insects, in that they have no conscious like moths, they simply travel to where the light is. Remember how we discussed at length what moths do first of all, being described as a moth is not a compliment. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. Keep in mind that he is extremely biased in this Chapter we see this through how he describes Gatsby’s party and it is all too easy to overlook his judgmental tone. Those who come from the Valley of Ashes are concerned with being elite or developing their own social status (similarly to Myrtle). It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.Īnd then one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Nick introduces Chapter 3 with elaborate descriptions of Gatsby’s party and his guests - who mainly come from East Egg and West Egg. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. 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.
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"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.Īmericans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. "He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had." Passages In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. THE NOVEL | THE TEXT Notable lines First lines
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