Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Great Gatsby: Foreshadowing
F. Scott Fitzgerald really likes foreshadowing, or so it would seem with the great amount of it that I've seen in The Great Gatsby. He does it once again with Gatsby's remarks to Nick about how he wishes that Daisy would just tell Tom that she never loved him. Multiple problems become possible when these words leave Gatsby's mouth. First, this means that Gatsby believes that Daisy really never loved Tom, which is not true based on what the reader has learned about their relationship. Second, he expects Daisy to choose him over her family, which might not be the path she chooses. Also, this statement reveals Gatsby's impatience with sharing Daisy with Tom, implying that a fallout might occur soon (and it does). Gatsby and Nick go to the Buchanan household on what is apparently the hottest day of the summer. Nick's anxiety about this day already reveals that something negative is going to unfold, and I don't feel bad for Daisy and Gatsby at all when it does. They weren't trying to conceal their affection for each other hardly at all in front of Tom, who being a smart man, quickly figured out what was going on, "He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife. No one moved" (Fitzgerald, 119). How could they be so stupid as to flirt right in front of Tom? He's sure to figure it out since he's having an affair of his own. That was definitely an unintelligent move on Gatsby and Daisy's part.
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