Part 2--Roy(Huanyi)Sun--A LOSER with winning appearance
Hi~👋 YOUR BIG BOY👦---Roy is back!!!!!!
Myrtle is a very strategic🗒 and intelligent🧠🧠🧠 woman👩👡 who could attract Tom with his own lovely💌💌 money💰💰. Because the more money Tom spends for Myrtle, the less likely he will leave her. In addition, Myrtle clearly knew that Tom already had a wife👩 but insisted on being his mistress and damaged his family, which can be seen that she was a woman with much guilt🚔, which also led to the deserved result of her death by Daisy. Also, the puppy🐶🐶 is Tom's gift to Myrtle, which implies the suppression of the lower class⏬ by the upper class⏫.
⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡If you want to seek fairness in society, please come and take part in the competition.
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠However, if you want to find absolute fairness, please stay away from the competition.
Myrtle's enslavement has been completely manifested in Tom's gift to her, the puppy🐕🐕. As we all know, dogs have always been tied by people and bound by human beings. In chapter 2, Myrtle asks Tom to buy her a
puppy, which satirizes Myrtle's status in front of Tom. Just like this puppy, which is completely controlled by Tom. The place where Myrtle lives-the house above the garage is like a prison👀, implying that Myrtle is a guilty woman. On the premise of knowing that Tom is a married man, she is still blindly destroying his family, bringing a family rift💔💔 to Tom and Daisy, which leads to the tragic ending of her being killed. Besides, Myrtle really wants to ask Tom not only for
money, but also for Tom's love💙💙and the replacement of Daisy. She keeps asking Tom for material needs in order to attract Tom's attention😱😱. The more money Tom gives her, the more easily Tom cannot give up her and leave her. As a matter of fact, her strong desire to realize her personal American Dream and her tragic ending are exactly a manifestation of the cruelty and unfairness of the competition – THE AMERICAN DREAM.
For Myrtle💁, she has NOT fully realized her American Dream, which is both to integrate into high society and become rich to change her current status. In chapter 2, Nick describes “Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume sometime before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room”, which happened after becoming Tom’s mistress. On the one hand, it could be pointed that whether a person is rich or poor can be reflected on the clothes👚👚to a large extent. Therefore, changing the cloth and style of clothing to make it a grandiose one is a kind of noblewoman’s embodiment👑 for Myrtle, and it is also the first step to enter the upper-class society and forget her original identification. On the other hand, just like the function and nature of clothes, Myrtle only changed her appearance and clothes. All she did was to improve her appearance to make her look like a rich woman, instead of making essential changes, thus being really accepted by the rich, including people who belong to the Old Money and the New Money.
Myrtle’s failure in the American Dream was a shared responsibility of herself and the society at that time🕓🕓, in which society needs to bear more responsibilities. When it comes to society, it requires a stricter legal system and social supervision. To be more specific, actually, Gatsby and George Wilson are supposed to belong to the same class in the society and both come from poor families🏚🏚, Gatsby made a profit by illegally selling alcohol🍹🍹🍹 on the underground black market 💀and became rich💰💰🤑, eventually becoming a millionaire. On the contrary, George Wilson has been running his own business diligently within the scope permitted by law, but what awaits him is nothing but poverty. Those who abide by the rules and laws need to live a life of poverty, while those who cross the law become millionaires🤑💸💰, which is not in line with logic and fair social standards. What is more, Myrtle’s fault could not be ignored as well. She devotes too much energy to reforming her appearance and pursuing material, rather than create a career with her own efforts to change the current status and blend in the upper class.
The media example mainly shows that the American Dream is an unfair competition, where the rich makes use of the poor by applying money. Drake represents people in the upper class of society, while other poorly dressed people in the video📹📼 stands for the working people at the bottom of society. In the video, Drake gives them relief and money everywhere👻. Although it seems to be a kind of material help, in fact, it is to rush into billboard’s top five to buy people’s hearts💛. Also, there is a lyric 🎵that “And they wishing wishin’ and wishin’ and wishin’” and “they wichin’ on me”,which aims to indicate that the poor put all their American Dreams and hope on Drake. It is an irony that those rich people, such as Drake, just taking it as a way of showing off their ability and influence to satisfy their vanity😓😓. In this case, the poor just like the tool used by the upper level in the society. Similar to the video, in Chapter 2 in the Great Gatsby, Tom “making a short deft movement, and broke [Myrtle’s] nose with his open hand👋👋” after Myrtle said Daisy’s name constantly without following Tom’s warning. From another perspective, Tom’s performance towards Myrtle reflects his disrespect for Myrtle and feelings without love. From the beginning to the end, Myrtle is like a tool in his life. He just wants to satisfy his greedy desires and needs blindly. When the two of them are placed in society, they represent two classes – the poor are only used by the rich with various material conditions, not only giving up their American Dream but becoming the victims of the rich’s American Dream.
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