Gatsby, Hamlet, Wuthering Weight Analysis
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I - Characters
Nick (West Egg, Studied at Yale with Daisy and Tom)
narrator
easily influence
superficial
unreliable
motivated by interests
accessible
judgmental
highly educated
bourgeois
Gatsby (West Egg, Know daisy from before the war)
central / focus of the plot
superficial / shallow
madly in love with Daisy
represent the american dream => represent the best of the american dream (a foreigner being totally accepted and wealthy) BUT represent the worst (someone capable of anything to achieve the american dream)
want to be a symbol of success
unreliable
manipulative + motivated by interests => relation with Nick
mysterious
attractive
sociable / socialite
dark/obscure personality
paradoxical => socialite but he is hiding enormous secrets and a dark personality
Inheritance => origins = poor
self-made man
naïf and self-assured
generous + sincere (≠ daisy) => qualities that the American society doesn’t consider => critics of this meritocracy because Gatsby as merits (war + construction of his richness)
Truly alone (the end = no one is coming to his burial) / abandoned (≠ generous)
American dream => ephemeral
Never satisfied => faire un commerce illégal alors que finalement son héritage lui suffit largement pour vivre
Nostalgic, sentimental => characteristics that doesn’t fit with the American society
Daisy (East Egg, Married with Tom, know Nick)
motivated by social status
undecided
kind
seen as pure (white) (≠ finally the only character that represent the purity is corrupted)
selfish
object of inaccessible desire (Gatsby doesn’t accept that)
pragmatic (last sentence of the novel) (she is in the present and her story with Gatsby is over)
Tom
proud
materialistic
generous
doesn’t see Daisy as his wife but as a social object
brutal
unfaithful (Myrtle)
unscrupulous
immature
Jordan
represents corruption
represents competition (objectif de monter dans la société)
Wolfshiem
represents corruption
represents the « dark side » of Gatsby
represents the fragility of Gatsby’s wealth
Myrtle / George
working class
represents the people for whom the American dream hasn’t work
entertainment of the upper class => collateral dommages
Tom and Myrtle show the importance of social status and how every character are motivated by interests (Tom even if he seems to prefer Myrtle, will never stop his relation with Daisy)
Symbols and Motif
Parties
social meeting
extravagance of the rich
upper class = narcissisme and hypocrisy => came to the party to show themselves
everyone at Gatsby parties ≠ no one at Gatsby’s funerals
entertainment
Green Light
Gatsby’s dream of being once again with Daisy
impossible to reach => foreshadows
represent the distance between the reality and the dream
Lighthouse => for the strayed boat (Gatsby)
Green = hope
Green = money => question Gatsby’s interest for Daisy
Green Light // the sun = Icarus. Want the achieve the American dream so bad that he destroys himself
represent the lost past which Gatsby looks with nostalgia BUT also the future which he dreams of being wealthy and happy with Daisy
hope of the future + nostalgia of the past (for Gatsby) => contrasting idea
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” => Gatsby is programmed for the failure
Valley of Ashes
obliged to see this zone
the rich can’t isolated themselves from the poverty
dark side of the American Dream
show that the American dream requires selfishness to succeed => use people of the Valley of Ashes to get to the West Egg
Rich
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