The Great Gatsby
"High society" - the upper class has always been viewed by those in and around it as a place of false appearances and sugar coated deceptions. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby supports and illustrates this notion. The focus of The Great Gatsby is North Eastern wealth, specifically, that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. A passage describing the Buchanan's friend Jordan Baker's drunken state is a perfect symbol for their own situation: "... Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly." (13). Much like Miss Baker's own faux composure, Tom and Daisy struggle to maintain an image of peace and harmony. Tom is trapped between two worlds - that of his "family life in East Egg, and that of his (not so) "secret life" in New York City. At his magnificent home in Long Island, Tom's marriage is already past the point of failure. Relations with his wife
Both Tom and Daisy are wrestling with gigantic burdens. Tom is in the middle of two disastrous relationships with women, and as a result, has fallen into an equally tempestuous relationship within himself. are beyond strained, as is evident in the cool formality with which they interact, and the occasional lapses in this facade which reveal the strife: " 'Did you give Nick a little hear-to-heart talk on the verandah?' demanded Tom suddenly. Even Nick, after his first encounter with Daisy in years, can see that her situation with Tom is so unsalvageable that the best thing she could do would be to take the child and run away. 'she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. The exact graveness of the situation is indicated by the escalation of Tom and Myrtle's private problems to public (albeit drunken) violence. " (25) - where Nick has been witness to one of this inner conflict's manifestations: " 'Civilization's going to pieces,' broke out Tom violently.
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