Parties at the Gatsby House

          In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has extraordinary, extravagant parties that many people attend. His purpose was to find Daisy, but he kept having them until he found someone that knew her. The fetes started late in the night and ended early in the morning. This reminds me of the opposite of my life, although the people in the book are older than me. I usually just come home with chores and other work to attend too. As I was reading, I was think,"Dang, I wish I could go to something like this."
          When I do go to events every weekend or so though, I get fatigued of going out places every weekend so I generally need a break from  having too much fun. I think Gatsby felt the same way. He was probably tired of having so many parties, but he had to keep having them to ensure he found his dream girl. He wanted to impress her and let her hear about the parties instead of going to look for her and telling her to come. That does show that he has determination to get what he wants since he kept doing that to find her, and I'd like to have his type of determination. Well, I wouldn't want to physically hurt anyone to be placed in a similar position to his, but it would be cool to have a mysterious but well known demeanor.

Sexual Affairs in The Great Gatsby

          In The Great Gatsby, the married couple Tom Buchanan and Daisy are having affairs. Specifically sexual relations with other people besides with each other. I believe Tom just wants a mistress to have on the side. I don't believe they truly loved one another since they had recent carnal knowledge of other people, and they were being adulterers, similar to Hesther in The Scarlett Letter. This being said, they should have gotten a divorce due to this. I think Daisy had an idea that he was, but she probably wasn't sure.
          Daisy and Gatsby were in love before she even married Tom. This is still not a reason to bypass that she was an adulterer, but she couldn't wait on Gatsby any longer to get himself together with money. One thing that is crazy is that as Tom was in the house with them to get them something to drink, Gatsby and Daisy just started making out. He didn't even have any suspicion about their relation with each until he later noticed him giving her glances and when Gatsby had that outburst of his love towards Daisy. I'm not sure if they actually had sexual affairs with each other as they were married, but I think they did, and they most likely did before she was married.

Puritanism Traits in The Great Gatsby

          In class, we have mainly studied Puritanism out of the other -isms that we were told about. I looked for some of these traits in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although this book wasn't written during the Puritanism period, I did come across a couple of traits of Puritanism. I'm aware we did an assignment similar to this when we had a substitute in class, but time prevented me from achieving this with quality. 

          On the first page of the book, it reads,"...reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures." Puritans believed that there shouldn't be any social pleasures. By speaking of someone's flaws, you are creating a barrier of vanity around yourself and allowing others to frivolously laugh at what someone couldn't prevent from happening. Their appearance was predetermined by God. Also, as you fill yourself with vanity, you will no longer remain pure. Nick, the main character, is doing well by reserving all judgments. The area where he faults Puritanical traits is by telling the readers that curious natures have been opened up. This is telling the readers that he is showing interest in something other than God, but he needs to keep up a neutral persona.

          On the ninety eighth page, Gatsby realizes he is the son of God. It most likely is because he didn't want to accept his parents as his parents, but he did come to the realization that he is the son of God. The Puritans believe their purpose in life was to glorify God. They also believe that God created them to be brought down for His glorification. They were concerned with doing God's will. Although Gatsby says he is the son of God for selfish purposes, he is correct.