Gatsby, Chapter 3–Your turn (pt. 4)
Ok. Here’s the last one for you to comment on. If you’ve worked on the others, this one should be a little easier:
I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. One of the men was talking with curious intensity to a young actress, and his wife, after attempting to laugh at the situation in a dignified and indifferent way, broke down entirely and resorted to flank attacks—at intervals she appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond, and hissed: “You promised!” into his ear.The reluctance to go home was not confined to wayward men. The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives. The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.
“Whenever he sees I’m having a good time he wants to go home.”
“Never heard anything so selfish in my life.”
“We’re always the first ones to leave.”
“So are we.”
“Well, we’re almost the last to-night,” said one of the men sheepishly. “The orchestra left half an hour ago.”
In spite of the wives’ agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted, kicking, into the night.
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i know this story is not about women, but robinson has brainwashed me (and i hate her for it) to notice the hardships all the women have been through before our generation. from how the men are behaving, women seem to be an object of pride and lust…? some women in the ‘jazz age’ do nothing about it, or perhaps even embrace it! myrtle is OBVIOUSLY one of those women. hell, she even tries to get Nick with her own sister! *coughcoughwhorecoughcough*
also notice many of the references of women to balloons. it caught my attention in ch1 where Nick compares Jordan and Daisy to ballons. here, it says, “and both wives were lifted, kicking, into the night.” there was ONE more but i can’t rmemeber where i found it. but later, Nick describes Jordan and Daisy being weighed down by there dresses.
relevant or am i over doing it?
…i hate my life…^o^
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damn it Randy! who cares if you’re way off or right on the dot? the only thing that matters is that you try your best and say *coughcoughwhorecoughcough* in all of your responses. duh!
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I did not like Myrtle since she came into the book and whe she is talking to Tom about Wilson she said “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman..I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (34) When i read this i felt kind of sad for Wilson.
And i have a question just because:
If a girl/boy said this to you how would you feel and what would you do?
P.S. Randy why do you hate your life?
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I agree with Alexei on his viewpoint on Myrlte. One of the things that intrigued me about her character, however, is that she takes Tom’s stern nature and reduces it to an attitude similar to that of a butler’s. This shows a weakness in Tom in that he is submisive to his mistress.
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