Personally,
the moments I found more striking were from the last three chapters. But if I
have to choose, I would say when Gatsby and Daisy first meet after so long,
when Tom finds out what was going on with Daisy and Gatsby and when they
quarrel at the hotel.
As I was reading the book, I was
always thinking and predicting what would happen next. As I wrote many
predictions in the 2nd post, I can say that most of them have been
asserted.
This text made me think that
sometimes when we desire to get something that we really want to have, we can
unintentionally behave in a very selfish way and we don't recognise the effects or
consequences that may produce on others. And so, it is very important to be
cautious and keep our eyes open so as to avoid having problems.
It made me think about this because I
noticed that most of the characters in the novel behaved in this way. They
didn't care about other people´s feelings. In the case of Gatsby, he just
concentrated in his objective and he didn't care about what the others could
say about him.
If I would have the chance to ask the
writer a question, It would be why he did not add at the end a possible Daisy's
reaction when Gatsby died? Because I expected in the end Daisy had changed
her feelings and had gone to Gatsby's funeral since she was deeply in love with
him.
Highly reflective post! Very good job liniking reading to personal experience. How would the novel be different if Daisy went to the funeral? What impact could that have on Nick?
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I think the novel would be completely different if Daisy went to the funeral. Maybe in the end she broke up with Tom and realized who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, if she went to the funeral, it would cause a huge impact on Nick: Maybe,he would try to console her and Daisy would confess all her feelings to him.