I hope the describtion of some interesting moments encoureged you to begin to read this wonderful book. So to make it clear, let's turn to the depiction of the main characters
Nick Carraway
Tom Buchanan
In this novel Tom Buchanan is the “bad boy”. Mr. Buchanan, Daisy Fay's
husband, comes from an old social and immensely wealthy family. He is a Yale
graduate showing also his high social standing and profanity.
Because of his college reputation, he still has the nick-names “The Athlete”
and “The Polo-Player” . He is oftentimes seen as an idol. Tom is a
good-looking, sporty and though guy who has verifiable “physical
accomplishments”. He is a sturdy, muscular man with “arrogant eyes” and a
husky voice.
Nevertheless, he has a racial attitude he, for example, disapproves
intermarriage between the black and white race . He is very egoistic and has
a high opinion of himself . Therefore Tom has no moral problems about his
affair with Myrtle Wilson. He says of himself that he “has almost a second
sight […] that tells [him] what to do”. This shows his careless behavior and
his supercilious manner.
Moreover he is a rude and violent person who sometimes acts boisterously and
maliciously .
|
|||||||||||||||||
Never being confronted with the consequences of his faults, because of
always running away when he is in trouble, he is described as a restless
person.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle Wilson is
a “thickish figure of a woman” in her
“middle thirties” . Even though she is not very beautiful, she still seems
attractive.
Myrtle is George Wilson’s wife, as well as the woman Tom is having an affair
with. She lets Tom push her around, just because she forgets the poor life,
her husband can give her and feels like she is part of a life she dreams of,
when she is together with him.
Myrtle would rather be treated like a dog by someone who has money instead of being cared for by someone who has no money.
George Wilson
George Wilson,
"a blond, spiritless man” who is
faintly handsome and pale. He is a representative of the working class
ordinary people, who were ,and some of them still are, eager to reach
something, to win through the difficulties of the life, to make their
AMERICAN DREAM come true.
He is the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes, which shows that he
is rather poor. His only hope for starting a new and better life somewhere
else, seems to be Tom selling his car to him. But he does not see that Tom
does not intend to sell his car and that it is just and excuse to show up
there and to meet Myrtle.
Wilson is ”so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” and that is the reason why he never notices
that Tom is the one his wife is having an affair with.
In the end, he is even so desperate that he is not able to think of another way than killing Gatsby and himself, to get out of his misery.
Based
on the material from http://www.ovtg.de
|
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий