Part 2 Lynn(Runlin) Dong

Hi, this is Lynn! 

In the Great Gatsby, Daisy is the most mysterious and complicated character. Just as Daisy’s name, her appearance is as beautiful as a flower🔅🔅. However, her personality is so vain and selfish😨. She easily abandoned Gatsby and married with Tom only because Tom has money and status, though she was supposed to wait for Gatsby to come back from war. For Daisy, her own happiness and success is established on money and fame. Therefore, to realize her own “American Dream”, she has to choose from her old love and her carefree future, and Daisy immediately selects the latter.😞

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Do you remember my definition of American dream in the last part? As I said before, the American Dream is a dream which advocates self-accomplishment. In order to realize our own success, we will focus more on ourselves, and gradually we will have less patience and empathy to listen to others and understand each other. The emotion connection will vanish, and all of us will become islands. 💔The world will full of selfish people with cold blood in the end…😞😔

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For Daisy, her American Dream is having money and status. Tom is an old-money, and he has all the things Daisy dreams of. Therefore, Daisy easily abandoned Gatsby’s love and became Tom’s wife. However, when she noticed that Tom had a mistress, she just chose to ignore it like it never happened. 😓The marriage is just a tool for Daisy to grasp her American Dream. Her disregard and inaction of maintaining their relationship reflect her selfishness and indifference. 😟It shows that when a person is chasing after his American Dream, he will focus too much attention on his own career and gradually become isolated from others.




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From my perspective, Daisy does achieve the American Dream😬. Daisy’s American Dream is having money and status. After she married Tom who is an old-money, she got the upper-class life she wanted.😮 However, she focused too much on herself and gradually became selfish and indifferent😵. “The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom’s ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside. As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.” For Daisy, she doesn’t care whether her marriage is happy.😰 She just selfishly grasps it like grasping the American Dream. However, though this selfishness can bring happiness for Daisy on surface, she still loses the true love and caring from others since she has isolated herself with others. Therefore, it’s better for Daisy to focus less on herself and pay more attention to her marriage and relationship with Tom. 😏😏

Both of the woman in the movie and Daisy are selfish and indifferent😟. Their selfishness is reflected in ignoring others’ feeling for their own sake.😦 In the movie JOKER, The woman on the bus ignores Arthur’s kindness with biases.She judged Arthur with stereotype and assumed Arthur  was trying to hurt her son. Therefore, she ordered Arthur to stop bothering her son from his “bad influence”.😩 For Daisy, when she married Tom, she selfishly abandoned Gatsby’s love and chased after her own American dream. She ignored Gatsby's feeling and just did what she wanted. it seems like in a corrupted world, people will gradually only focus on themselves and become selfish in the end.