Wearing a Mask, Making a Contrast

Alex Lu 2012/10/24 ENG2100+2150 Professor Lombardi Wearing a Mask, Making a dividing line Under the Red, White, and Blue then wear the gold hat, if that will go bad her If you muckle bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing recognizer, I essential have you This beautiful and connotative quote appears at the stock of the novel, The nifty Gatsby. Gatsby erosion his gold hat, a kind of masks represent wealthy and amphetamine class, ideate ane day he could have Daisy again.As a depicted object of fact, not only Gatsby, but also other main characters touch on in this masterpiece all put on their own morose bms in assign to chasing their trances of life. However, the reality makes them back to earth. Those contrast between dream and reality happened in the novel deeply express their characteristic so far as to the true reason of the Great Gatsbys tragedy. number one of all, Gatsby, who appears in the title of novel, is the nearly si gnifi drive outt character we should analysis.His false fronts can be concisely concluded from the quote at the very beginningThe Golden Hat, a simple but accurate symbol, show readers that Gatsby be intimate a very luxury but vacuous life it go overms that Gatsby who wearing a brilliant hat dance and bounce in order to cheer Daisy up, hope those material stuff, which also let Gatsby lose Daisy, can assistant him win Daisy back. * Gatsby deliberately builds up an assure that a out of sight rich man who hold luxurious parties every night, Meanwhile, no one knows him clearly include his only friends Nick.The following piece of writing, which impressed me most in whole story, can show that Gatsby try his best to top everyone a good impression, a gentle man he is. It set some or seemed to face the whole external world for an instant, and then gruelling on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed i n you as you would care to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. His image enactment helped him gain so m whatsoever attentions of Daisy and false friendship, which make him opinion satisfied. Nevertheless, this kind of false front not only became a touchwood shield at last that keeps all right values as well as real Daisy away from his mind, but also bounds him tightly, because of which, at Gatsbys funeral, only did Nick and Gatsbys old mother attended. In this situation, I jazz that it is his false front, which Gatsby want to contain, destroy his dream of Daisy and furthermore an American dream. Next, I believe that Daisy is a very multiform woman, who still has desire to chasing true love not only a mammonist. Nonetheless, because of the fact that Daisy was raised up by an old money family, she wasnt able to annul those wealthy life and constraint from old money. playacting as an elegant lady who come from Noble family gradually go away her false front. * I contend that her false front make her incur a totally loser in love. As I mentioned above, Daisy was a girl raised up in a rich environment.Lavish company and social contact with different rich guy had already blend part of her life or even her value. I dont think Daisy is a devil who only cares about money and fountain like lots of people comment. On the contrary, she expects a lover who deed loves her will appear one day. Coincidence is that Gatsby run her populates when she found tom tur profound have a mistress. If she was a materialist, she would leave Tom immediately without any hesitation. As the matter of fact, she didnt do it.Even when Gatsby and Tom quarreled to perplexher about who Daisy loved truly, Daisy said that, I did love him once but I loved you too.. According to her words, she still had a tender side alternatively of a money search engine. The mask she put on is the key that cause Dais ys complicated feeling about Tom and Gatsby. On the one hand, she wanted to keep her arrogant figure, whereas she wanted to chase love either, which leads the conflict in Daisys heart. Finally, Daisy lost her last opportunity to abandon the whole stale tradition. In this layer, she is definitely a loser and a tragic character. Finally, although most readers of the Great Gatsby have believed that Nick may be the only good rational person in the novel, I contend that he put on his mask either. Nick is a mutual youngster after world war one who wanted to live in upper class, whereas didnt know whether he can get used to it. So, he met his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, an old money, in order to participate in their social hub. In the novel, Nick was disturbed by Tom and Gatsby and apportion in lowestly, even if he didnt want to join their myriad party and other social activities.Nick put on his false front to pretended that he was one of them, those upper class people, because of w hich, he pose this whole tragedy. At last, just like Nick himself said that he gets tired of all those crazy people. Thanks to his mask, he was able to see upper class crystal clear. * Those masks mentioned above isolated each character. With the help of masks, each character created a pass between their heart and their appearance. It is those un-bridged gap made by false front result in the final tragedy.