Daisy

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Questions about The Great Gatsby

In chapter 4, Why does Gatsby buy his mansion? Why does Gatsby want Nick to invite Daisy over to his house even though Gatsby has his own impressive home?  How long has Gatsby waited to meet Daisy again?

About half way between West Egg and New York

About half way between West Egg and New York
the motor-road hastily joins the railroad
and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile
 so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.

This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm
where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens,
where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke
and finally, with a transcedent effort, of men
who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

Ocassionally a line of grey cars craws along an invisible track,
gives out a ghasty creak and comes to rest,
and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up
with leaden spades and stir up an impenterable cloud
which screens their obscure operations from your sight. (Fitzgerald 27)

living up to society's expectations.

Society has an unwritten set of rules. Everyone is supposed to follow these rules if we want to be accepted. These rules determine how we should look, what we should wear, how we should act, even how we should live. It determines what is cool or not, and a common goal that everyone should strive for. That goal is money. If we have money, than we can buy the look and lifestyle society thinks is perfect. The sad part is though, is that people will do anything to reach that goal. Some people will simply marry someone so that they can share in their wealth without having to do any hard work to earn that money. People appreciate the value of money when they have to work for it from the ground up. To marry into money is like taking a shortcut, and it often leads to problems. Sometimes people who do not marry into money find other ways to gain it. Those other ways can often lead to bad outcomes. And the reason these people go through all these things for a material item such as money, is that they want to feel apart of something that's important. Money has always been a symbol of power. The more money you have the more power. But what good is power if we use it selfishly? Then there really is no power if it is not changing the world for the better.

Beauty and the Real thing

Within the first 3 seconds of meeting someone, or even just looking at someone, you have made an opinion about that person. It does not matter that you have not said a single word. It is not something we can help it is something we just do. Because of this, looks can be deceiving. I saw a story on tv one time about this man, who even though he had an upper class life style, enjoyed to act like a hobo and travel across America. If you were to see this man one day on the streets, you would just assume he was homeless. The idea of him having a nice car and a huge house would seem impossible. But this is just an example of how looks do not always tell the whole story. Still though, people are too concerend about the way they look. Society is constantly telling us what is "beautiful" or what is "hot", and because of this people are always trying to reach that "perfection". Girls will buy makeup, a mountain of hair products , and more clothes than their closets can hold, just so they can feel pretty. (And because it's fun ofcourse) Even guys are the same way, they care about their looks just as much as girls. The way everybody cares about looks eventually effects who you might spend the rest of your life with. People say that they will date people for their personalities but most start to fall for the way a person looks first. It's just the way things are.