'The Great Gatsby': Jay Gatsby Character Analysis

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@Valicia3001 5 жыл бұрын

Please do more A level texts like Othello and Richard II

@johnnymonoxide9220 6 жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic analysis Mr Bruff.

@andyroodaboss9706 5 жыл бұрын

You are the 🐐 for help with last minute English revision.

@harperkubaisi687 5 жыл бұрын

would you be able to do a character analysis for Tom, Daisy and the other main characters??? would be so helpful!

@ximena15367 3 жыл бұрын

When you were talking about Gatsy almost knocks a clock over on the mantel/wall, it almost feels like he trying to stop time and also like, back then( I think don't know for sure), you would rotate a clock's hands clockwise to move forward and counterclockwise to move back in time( which is what Gatsy wants). Thank you for pointing out that detail and continue on with the hard work. _with greatest regards, Ximena Callejas_

@jermaingarcia 2 жыл бұрын

I'm just finding this in 2022. This is top notch!

@delonsoedwards8092 4 жыл бұрын

Just stumbled upon this (maybe intuitively, I am an INTJ). The Great Gatsby has been my favorite novel since high school. I'm 45 years old now, with the experience of college, first loves, and life in general. This analysis of The Great Gatsby is one of the most insightful and personally enlightening that I've ever heard.👍

@kittygreig1507 3 жыл бұрын

@ontyam it’s one of the 16 personalities types on the Myers-Briggs test

@noahfabian4813 2 жыл бұрын

I am also a intj

@alindley3128 4 жыл бұрын

Oh dear, this analysis is so good, except for the comment on Daisy's crying over Gatsby's shirts. To better understand it, you need to ask a woman, a married woman whose husband is far away, perhaps deployed to military service, why Daisy cries when she touches Gatsby's beautiful shirts. It's not gross, it's a sweet depiction of her profound physical loneliness, missing the touch of, dare I say it where high school students can read it? Daisy, a normal woman and a mom whose marriage has gone bad, misses the touch of Gatsby's skin. Not necessarily a depraved longing, just a longing for human contact that she is missing in her marriage. Grown-up, married, straight women might feel this in a wholesome way when separated from their husbands. There's a song that Joan Baez sang on one of her albums called, "Jesse, come home" that evokes this longing. However, women rarely mention this out loud, so Mr. Bruff can't be expected to be aware of it. If his wife feels this way about his shirts when he's away traveling, she's probably never told him about it. One wonders what and whom Fitzgerald had been watching to know about this quintessentially feminine reaction to her lover's shirts. One senses that perhaps Fitzgerald is incorporating into his novel a scene he actually witnessed, though who it was, what married woman broke down in Fitzgerald's presence while touching her missing or absent husband's shirts, we likely will never know.

@mattmiller4917 2 жыл бұрын

You must come from a much richer family than I do if you find Daisy to be "a normal woman and a mom." In the book, she shows no interest in her daughter. Instead, she is raised by a nanny and only shows up to demonstrate her love for her mother for about 10 seconds. Most normal people have at some point in their lives worked at something--whether that be a job or as a parent. Daisy, not so much.

@alindley3128 2 жыл бұрын

@@mattmiller4917 I wasn't making any comment at all on Daisy's attributes as a mom. I agree in general that children need contact with a loving mother, and that many rich children are deprived of this benefit that those of us (including me) who come from middle class backgrounds typically enjoy: the loving touch of a devoted mom when we are little. And I agree with you about the benefits of work. The real life woman after whom Daisy is modeled also agreed that work was good...she worked as a newspaper reporter and newspaper owner and editor, and valued the chance to use her talents to contribute to society. I have an uncle who has criticized the mothering skills of the real woman after whom Daisy is modeled, but since he wasn't raised by her, but by his own biological mother, I don't think he actually knows what the real woman's mothering skills were like. Both of the real woman's sons who actually grew up in her care have written a books about their childhood experiences. I haven't been able to find those books in stores or at the library, so I haven't read them. But I don't believe either of these sons criticized their mother for her mothering skills. As far as I know, both of the sons whom she raised felt well loved by her. The real woman after whom the character of Daisy was modeled, or one of the real women after whom she was modeled, the other being Rose Kennedy, (since Gatsby is partly modeled after Joe Kennedy, Sr., who really did make his money as a bootlegger initially, like Gatsby, and partly after a male friend the Kennedy's had who unlike Joe Kennedy, was NOT successful in marrying the girl he had been in love with as a youth, because in real life, he didn't even try), had another son whom she couldn't raise in person due to the circumstances of her life when he was born. That third son of hers, whom she did not raise in person, turned out to have had a very sad childhood, but that is not her fault, since she wasn't the person raising him, because she had entrusted his care to a different family. That family did do their best to be good and kind to that little boy, but they were troubled by other factors, and so his childhood was terribly, terribly sad. But that was not the "real" Daisy's fault...at least, if tne real "Daisy" did things that made that boy's adoptive mother unhappy, she didn't, at the time, realize how devastating her action would be to the boy's adoptive mother, and didn't realize that her action would be so devastating to that woman that she would not be able to be a good mother to the little boy she had agreed to adopt. What I meant by calling the FICTIONAL character of Daisy Buchannon, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald a "normal woman and a mom" was that she was an adult heterosexual female who, quite naturally, missed the physical companionship of the husband who had given her those children, because he was absent from the marriage as he carried on an extramarital affair. Thus, the fictional Daisy was easily susceptible to fall in love with Gatsby, based on her memory of the romantic and probably physical (to some degree) relationship she had once had with him. Basically, I meant that the fictional Daisy was straight and lonely in her marriage, and thus found Gatsby romantically appealing. I didn't have any opinion to offer on the fictional Daisy regarding her skills or lack thereof as a mother. The real woman after whom Daisy is modeled, and the real man after whom Gatsby is modeled, did not at all, in real life, behave anything like F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional characters. In real life, the two had dated as teenagers, but the "real Gatsby" knew full well that he could not expect to marry an heiress like Daisy because he was the bright but penniless son of a college professor, well educated, but poor. When he and his former teen-aged sweetheart met again for the first time years later (at the Kennedy house, probably, since Scott Fitzgerald seems to have been hiding behind the curtains in the drawing room, listening in, and thinking, "What good subjects for my Great American Novel these two would make...but 'I'm going to have to jazz up the story quite a bit to make it sell....") they did not, actually, rekindle their affair. Instead, Daisy, now happily married to a wealthy stockbroker, introduced Gatsby to one of her middle class friends who was recently divorced, namely the magnificently beautiful athlete who appears in the novel as Jordan Baker. So the real-life "Gatsby" married the real-life "Jordan Baker", and the two women stayed friends, and the two families were friends and even celebrated holidays together.... .....and in the coming years, Gatsby helped Daisy's father get elected president, with help from the money of his friend in real life, Joe Kennedy.... and that's why England didn't fall to the Nazi's, and why we all speak English and not German... ... and one day, Gatsby's favorite granddaughter made an appointment to have lunch with her uncle, the uncle who looked an awful lot like Tom Buchannon, and asked him at lunch, as she munched on her caesar salad with chicken in the nice restaurant near her uncle's downtown office in Foggy Bottom, "Uncle, why is it that my father and I don't look at all like my grandmother, your mother, Mrs. Jordan Baker Gatsby, but we look an awful lot like my grandmother's very good friend, Mrs. Daisy Buchannon? Can you tell me that?" And her uncle told her, "No, I really can't say..." But he was smiling kindly with his eyes as he said it. And he must have told the family lawyer that his niece, the one named Daisy-Marie Jordan Baker Gatsby by her ambitions mom, was in town, and was wondering about her ancestry. So when this niece went to pay a visit to the family lawyer, just to check in, this man told her, "I have here a document that may interest you. It's an earlier version of your grandmother, Jordan Baker Gatsby's, will..." And so she took the document and read it, and realized that what it meant was that her father was really Daisy Buchannon's son, adopted and raised by Jordan Baker Gatsby and Jay Gatsby as their son. He did look just like his biodad, Jay Gatsby, her grandfather, and so did she... in fact, people were always commenting on how closely she resembled her grandfather, Jay Gatsby, in her face and her long limbs...which meant that her father must be the son of Jay Gatsby...and Daisy Buchannon.. .but how could that have happened? Well, she knew technically how it must have happened, because she has gotten an "A" in eighth grade health class. The question was...how come her father had been raised in Gatsby's family and not in Daisy's family, since Daisy must have given birth to him? How had he gotten from the delivery room with Daisy Buchannon into the home of Jay and Jordan Gatsby? ....but that's a different story for another day!

@alindley3128 2 жыл бұрын

.....and I don't think it was adultery, even though it may look that way at first glance... ....but as to what the circumstances really were? As Gatsby's son, the one who resembled Tom Buchannon in face, figure, and coloring, said that day in the restaurant, to Daisy, his niece: "I really couldn't say!" (Because I'm not a "poser", claiming to know what I couldn't possibly know beyond mere guess and speculation.)

@ligardy 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing Thank you

@vowselfington8901 3 жыл бұрын

The Mayflower ship and Tuolomee yacht parallelism made me stop what I was doing. My god.

@alindley3128 4 жыл бұрын

Synecdoche. It's not merely a funny term that James Thurber introduced in a humorous short story about his eighth grade English class. It's also why Daisy loves Gatsby's shirts. They're a synecdoche, a metaphor for what they contain, namely Gatsby himself.