Finishing Gatsby

I was surprised at the ending of this story. I have read this before and I clearly do not remember Gatsby being killed, oh well, I guess thats the point of a story. To me this story was a bit lacking in some areas.

Why didn’t Daisy take any responisibility for killing Myrtle? One would think that letting the man you love ever so much take all the blame would make a person go mad. Then she just leaves, end of dicussion, no more talk of Daisy. I discussed in my last blog that to me American literature give a sense of morals and values, well this most certainly does not uphold that sense.

Tom, I am not sure whether to be angry about him or to praise him. On the one hand, he obviously told Wilson who was driving the car and all the information that drove the man to killing Gatsby. On the other hand, after everything that was said in the hotel room, he went back and protected his wife. It is kind of a angel and devil sort of scenrio. Damned if you do damned if you don’t. I guess he got what was coming as far as Daisy being in love with someone else. He can cheat but she can’t? What kind of crazy messed up way of thinking is that? Men!

Anyways, the significance of this story as being a canon, a book you should read to be considered a “well read person” is what exactly? Sure its an OK book, but amazing? Not really. Why is this considered a great piece of American Literature? I think I have made it pretty clear that I thought this book was a little creepy. It is only natural that I see this book in a God sense, I am telling you I can tie anything with God. Going to a Catholic school my whole life it has been drilled into my head. The eyes of the doctors office just show that we are always being watched and that sinners will be punished, not punished by God, eventually, punished by themselves. Myrtle new she was wrong in cheating, so when she thought she was stopping the car of Tom, what irony that Daisy ran her over. Daisy new she was wrong to be cheating with Gatsby, what irony that she needed to flea and leave the man she loved behind. Gatsby new he was wrong to pursue and cheat with a married woman with a child, what irony that he was killed. Tom new he was wrong to be cheating with Myrtle, what irony that he was the one to see her dead body on the side of the road. The only person who did not deserve any form of this was Wilson.

American Literature

What I think of when I hear American Lituratre is nothing all too exciting. American Literature brings about pictures of men in argile suits with suede patches on the elbows. Professors gathering in small groups discussing what they think about the how West Side Story is a disgrace to Shakspears Romeo and Juliet. Or I imagine a man sitting by himself in a little coffee house writing his story with a feathered pen.

Nothing about literature tickles my insides or gets me excited to open a new book. To be honest, half the books I was supposed to read in high school, I did not. I felt no need to read Nathaniel Hawthorne or Faulkner. Every literature class I have been in forces you to read stories that, personally, I have no interest in reading. 

On the same token American Literature brings about the sense of wholesomeness. The classics that are interesting such as Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind, and Canary Row. A more uncomplicated way of life is brought about by American Literature.  Grass roots authors, writing about an emerging America and the struggles become a unifiyed society with tradtition, morals, and values. Carpet baggers and lost novels are all apart of this coined term American Literature. This is the foundation of all American Literature that has come to be in today’s world.

 All in all American Literature is the foundation. It is the recording of events as they took place and although a lot of it is fiction, it is all based on true life trials and tribulations of our society. The aspect of American Literature that can make some  many adolescents and young adults be turned off, is the way it can be forced upon some. I like to read and enjoy what I enjoy. I do not, as do many students, like being told what to read and when to read it.

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