In the novel the Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts different kinds of relationships between males and females. These relationships are formed between married and non-married characters. There are characters that are married but besides being married, they sustain an extramarital relationship. All these relationships are very controversial and they create interesting conflicts that later in the novel affect in someway the other characters. The author uses all these relationships in the novel to make the plot more interesting and realistic. He also tries to reveal a message regarding the insecurity among couples and the depth these relationships have.
In the novel there are relationships between married couples, which do not set a great example of marriage. Tom and Daisy are married and they have a daughter. Their relationship has a certain depth because there is a child involved. However, they are married but they donÃÂt act in a proper way.
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Gatsby Essay: Relationships
This writer tries to reduce one of the greatest American novels, and arguably the most efficient of the great novels, to a tract on marital fidelity. It cuts out so much of the novel, so much of the beauty of the entire story that it reduces it to crude simplicity.
It also contains a number of statements showing a questionable understanding of the novel. For example, that Jordan Baker is "is a very dishonest woman who does anything to be well known." Jordan Baker is not that interested in being well known. She is interested in winning at whatever she does.
In short, the essay reads this novel so narrowly that it barely reads it at all.
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